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22And Samuel said: “Does the Lord want holocausts and victims, and not instead that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifice. And to heed is greater than to offer the fat of rams.

16Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.

1Admonish them to be subordinate to the rulers and authorities, to obey their dictates, to be prepared for every good work,

17Obey your leaders and be subject to them. For they watch over you, as if to render an account of your souls. So then, may they do this with joy, and not with grief. Otherwise, it would not be as helpful to you.

26Behold, I am setting forth in your sight today a blessing and a curse. 27It will be a blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am instructing to you this day. 28It will be a curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but instead you withdraw from the way, which I am revealing to you now, and you walk after foreign gods that you have not known.

5through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles,

19For, just as through the disobedience of one man, many were established as sinners, so also through the obedience of one man, many shall be established as just.

33For you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God has instructed, so that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be extended in the land of your possession.’ ”

6And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that you have heard in the same way from the beginning, and in which you should walk.