'Rule' in the Bible

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;

But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;