This law wills that inferiors should obey their superiors; for without that, human society could not be preserved; and thus the faith of Christ does not exempt the faithful from the obligation of obeying the secular powers.
The Scriptures make it a duty for slaves to obey their masters, even when they are oppressive and unjust.
Whether subjects are bound to obey their superiors in all things?
His third Scripture reference to prove the unlawfulness of slavery in the sight of God, is this: "God commands children to obey their parents, and wives to obey their husbands.
If he had bestowed a little more attention on this grand commandment itself, he might have seen, as we have shown, that it in no wise conflicts with the precept which enjoins servants to obey their masters.
How can that doctrine be of God, seeing that God commands subjects to obey their princes?
That, as subjects are commanded to obey their magistrates, so are magistrates commanded to fulfil their duty to the subjects, as God by His Word has prescribed the office of the one and of the other.
Besides this, the discharging the slaves from all obligation to obey their masters, which is the consequence of pronouncing slavery to be unlawful, would have had no better effect than to let loose one half of mankind upon the other.
Here Christianity itself points the way to progressive improvement, and commands children to obey their parents, wives their husbands, and servants their masters.
Fuller, that the New Testament is not silent on the subject of slavery; that it recognises the relation; that it commands slaves to obey their masters, and gives reasons why they should do so.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obey their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
