Okay I went to the scripture and this is what I found.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.
here is the Greek
peithō hēgeomai hymōn kai hypeikō gar autos (okay I only needed the first word so I am done adding the rest of the Greek, go look it up for yourself if you that interested)
peithō
1) persuade
a) to persuade, i.e. to induce one by words to believe
b) to make friends of, to win one's favour, gain one's good will, or to seek to win one, strive to please one
c) to tranquillise
d) to persuade unto i.e. move or induce one to persuasion to do something
2) be persuaded
a) to be persuaded, to suffer one's self to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing
1) to believe
2) to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person
b)
to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with
3) to trust, have confidence, be confident
So the word means to persuade or be persuaded and then there is a line about listen to, obey, yield to, comply with.
Here was an interesting point about the use of this word in the KJV, the use of the this particular word is translate differently throughout the Bible.
persuade 22, trust 8, obey 7, have confidence 6, believe 3, be confident 2, miscellaneous 7
I will need to look these up and see why they used the different words instead of OBEY for every instance. Also I found that the word obey has 5 different words in the Greek that was used in the KJV. The others pretty much stand for OBEY or submit, submission. Why then does this one use of the word get used 7 different times? I really do need to look the other locations and see if there is something about them that could actually mean persuade or be persauded as in this particular instance.