Quotes About Obedience

For Moses said, ëThe Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.í

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in Godís sight to listen to you rather than God.

sold a field he owned, brought the money, and laid it at the apostlesí feet.

At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this manís blood.”

But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.

and told him, ëLeave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.í

Then the Lord said to him, ëTake off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”

The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”

The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Here I am, Lord,” he answered.

“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”