Righteous vs Obedient - What's the difference?
righteous | obedient |
free from sin or guilt
moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
justified morally
(slang, US) awesome
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
As adjectives the difference between righteous and obedient
is that righteous is free from sin or guilt while obedient is willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.As a verb righteous
is to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.righteous
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* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* righteousness * self-righteousVerb
(es)- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
obedient
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* (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.