'Submit to' in the Bible
Then the Lord's angel said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.
You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.
Joshua said, "Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the Lord God of Israel."
Foreigners are powerless before me; when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.
The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.
The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him.
Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. He said, "You don't need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you."
Now, don't be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
So now, you kings, do what is wise; you rulers of the earth, submit to correction!
When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. Foreigners are powerless before me;
The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.
Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him!
But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.
who loves me and is my stronghold, my refuge and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I take shelter, who makes nations submit to me.
I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them." Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.
But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the Lord, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.
I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, "Submit to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live.
Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. "Do not be afraid to submit to the Babylonians. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.
He will have control over the hidden stores of gold and silver, as well as all the treasures of Egypt. Libyans and Ethiopians will submit to him.
Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings in the future.
Then the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!"
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven."
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.