'Obedience' in the Bible
through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;
for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.
have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,
for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --
and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;
reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;
through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,
according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,