Sentences with phrase «render obedience to»

Students, on the other hand, have the duty to render obedience to teachers within the limits of their recognized authority.

The «rigorists,» that is, those who hold that the Sermon on the Mount must be taken with radical seriousness — render obedience to God's command impossible.»

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One may observe that the question of obedience is greatly simplified when obedience is rendered to oneself and those of like mind.

While Christians should submit to the state, pray for its leaders, and render qualified obedience to its laws, to pledge allegiance is a profoundly religious act.

If every situation for man is one of decision, in which he must render obedience, so also is the hour of suffering; then also he must renounce his own claim — not indeed in resignation, but in an active assent to the will of God, who is God of the future and gives the future.

The implication seems to be that these leaders and their predecessors have exploited the privileges of their position instead of rendering to God the obedience and service that he demands.