Quotes About Obedience

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,

So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.

For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all Godís house.

Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all Godís house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.

And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him