The Vow of Obedience in the Sacred Scripture

Hebrews 5: 7-9 In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, * and he was heard becauseof his reverence. Son though he was, * he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him…

Ecclesiastes 4: 17 Guard your step when you go to the house of God. Let your approach be obedience, rather than the fools' offering of sacrifice; for they know not how to keep from doing evil.

Psalms 40: 7-9 Sacrifice and offering you do not want; but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts and sin-offerings you do not require; so I said, "Here I am; your commands for me are written in the scroll. To do your will is my delight; my God, your law is in my heart!"

1Samuel 15: 22-23 But Samuel said: "Does the LORD so delight in holocausts and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the LORD? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams. For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler."

Romans 5: 18-21 In conclusion, just as through one transgression condemnation came upon all, so through one righteous act acquittal and life came to all. For just as through the disobedience of one person the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous. The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.