35 occurrences in 12 translations

'Obedient' in the Bible

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

For I too am a man obedient to authority, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this or that,' and he does it."

to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man well spoken of by all the Jewish people, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear what you have to say.”

Paul said, “John performed a baptism of repentance, continually telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, [to confidently accept and joyfully believe] in Jesus [the Messiah and Savior].”

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, 'Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

His affection for you is even greater as he remembers how obedient all of you were and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

I write to you [perfectly] confident of your obedient compliance, since I know that you will do even more than I ask.

For if anyone hears the word but is not obedient to it, he is like a man who looks at himself in a mirror

But he who looks closely into the perfect Law--the Law of freedom--and continues looking, he, being not a hearer who forgets, but an obedient doer, will as the result of his obedience be blessed.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὑπακοή 
Hupakoe 
Usage: 15

שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

ὑπακούω 
Hupakouo 
obey , be obedient to , hearken
Usage: 20

ὑπήκοος 
Hupekoos 
Usage: 3

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