Obedience and Disobedience

Also called: Duty, Rebellion
Compliance with the demands of another.

Top Bible Verses about Obedience and Disobedience

Deuteronomy 26:16

“This day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, and you must observe them diligently with all your heart and with all your soul. Read Deuteronomy 26:16
Matthew 26:39

Matthew 26:39

And going forward a little he fell down on his face, praying and saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” Read Matthew 26:39

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Read John 14:15

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, “It is necessary to obey God rather than men! Read Acts 5:29

Romans 5:19

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous. Read Romans 5:19
Philippians 2:8

Philippians 2:8

he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross. Read Philippians 2:8

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord. Read Colossians 3:20

Famous Christian Quotes About Obedience and Disobedience, Duty, Rebellion

Plant the Cross in Your Garden

Plant in the garden of your memory, the tree of the holy Cross; it produces a very efficacious medicine against all the suggestions of the devil. Of this most noble and fertile tree, the root is humility and poverty; the bark, labor and penitence; the branches, mercy and justice; the leaves, true honor and modesty; the scent, sobriety and abstinence; the beauty, chastity and obedience; the splendor, right faith and firm hope; the strength, magnanimity and patience; the length, long-suffering and perseverance; the breadth, benignity and concord; the height, charity and wisdom; the sweetness, love and joy; the fruit, salvation and life eternal.

Thomas à Kempis

Everyone Hates to Submit to Authority

Owing to the false opinion of his own excellence that every person entertains, there is no one who patiently endures that others should rule over him. Those who cannot avoid the necessity do, indeed, reluctantly obey those who are above them; but inwardly they fret and rage, because they think that they suffer wrong. The Apostle [Paul] cuts off, by a single word, all disputes of this kind, by demanding that all who live “under the yoke” shall submit to it willingly. He means that they must not inquire whether they deserve that lot or a better one; for it is enough that they are bound to this condition.

John Calvin

Thinking Any Service Is Good Enough for God

Men have naturally such slight thoughts of the majesty and law of God that they think any service is good enough for him, and conformable to his law. The dullest and deadest times we think fittest to pay God a service in. When sleep is ready to close our eyes, and we are unfit to serve ourselves, we think it a fit time to open our hearts to God. How few morning sacrifices God has from many persons and families! Men leap out of their beds to their carnal pleasures or worldly employments, without any thought of their Creator and Preserver, or any reflection upon his will as the rule of our daily obedience.

Stephen Charnock
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