1 I BEG you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, pleasing to God \'97 your rational worship.
16 It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."
29 Peter, answering for the apostles, said, "God must be obeyed rather than men.
21 Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us we have confidence toward God,
22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.
15 "If you love me, you will keep my commands,
19 For as by the disobedience of the one man the many were set down as sinners, so by the obedience of the one the many will be set down as righteous.
58 So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; since you know that your labor is not fruitless in the Lord.
14 As obedient children, do not shape your lives by the passions that ruled you in the former days of ignorance,
20 But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still,
32 that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed with you.
11 never flagging in zeal, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
23 Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.
3 For this is the love of God, our keeping his commands. And his commands are not burden-some,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
8 Although he was a Son he learned obedience from his sufferings,
9 and being thus made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
19 Whoever breaks one of these commandments, the least of them, and teaches men to do so, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever does them and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
23 He said to all: "If any one chooses to come after me, let him disown himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.
22 Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
22 Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1 LET every person be obedient to the superior authorities. For there is no authority except from God and the actual authorities have been appointed by God.
2 So he who resists the authority opposes the arrangement of God. Those who resist will bring on themselves condemnation.
1 LET every person be obedient to the superior authorities. For there is no authority except from God and the actual authorities have been appointed by God.
2 Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
27 He answered, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.'
46 "Why do you call me: 'Master, Master,' and yet not do what I say?
27 But I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies; act nobly to those who hate you;
28 bless those who curse you; pray for those who insult you.