Bible Dictionary: Obedience to God: A Characteristic of Saints

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Knowledge and Obedience.
... V. KNOWLEDGE AND OBEDIENCE. ... "Walking" is the characteristic Bible word ... The knowledge
of God's will gives point and purpose to the activities of life. ...
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Perseverance of Saints.
... at any time true saints of God, are preserved ... in the sense that subsequently to
regeneration, obedience is their ... is an attribute or characteristic of Christian ...
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Elijah Come Again
... He came in a similar epoch. His characteristic, like Elijah's, was 'power,' not
gentleness. ... Real rectitude cannot live apart from obedience to God. ...
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That Christ, the Son of God, Created all Things, and Has Appointed ...
... proportion, each kind discovering some characteristic quality, the ... tame distinguished
by gentleness and obedience to man ... Christ' but...the supreme God."--Hein. ...
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What a Good Man Is, and How He Becomes So
... The loftiest perfection of conduct is obedience to God. ... Thank God! ... Very often
imperfections are the exaggerations of characteristic goodnesses, and warn us to ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/what a good man is.htm

Prayer and Humility
... for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God's ... It must be an attribute,
a characteristic of prayer ... that are more secret and which are prized by God. ...
/.../bounds/the essentials of prayer/ii prayer and humility.htm

Attributes of Selfishness.
... shameless unreasonableness, is the universal characteristic of every ... he had stolen
a horse in obedience to acquisitiveness ... God so tempers the constitution as to ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xvii attributes of selfishness.htm

God's Law Immutable.
... The special characteristic of the beast, and therefore of ... could the papacy exalt
itself above God; whoever should ... Such an act of obedience to papal laws would ...
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Attributes of Love.
... the perfection and glory of that love which constitutes obedience to the law of
God. ... Meekness is, and must be, a peculiar characteristic of the saints in ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xv attributes of love.htm

Still Another Triplet
... the chapter, but its occurrence here is characteristic of Paul's ... do with the degree
of our obedience; but this ... the assumption that the grace of God working on ...
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