35 Bible Verses about Obeying People

I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go!' and he goes; and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.

They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

She said to her, "All that you say I will do."

She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law told her.

Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me;

Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until this day.

The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.