'Subject' in the Bible

So also we [whether Jews or Gentiles], when we were children (spiritually immature), were kept like slaves under the elementary [man-made religious or philosophical] teachings of the world.

But when [in God’s plan] the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the [regulations of the] Law,

so that He might redeem and liberate those who were under the Law, that we [who believe] might be adopted as sons [as God’s children with all rights as fully grown members of a family].

Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law--will you not listen to the Law?

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

But if you are guided and led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.

and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself.

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,

and subjected everything under his feet.For in subjecting everything to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he is also subject to weakness.

Furthermore, here [in the Levitical priesthood] tithes are received by men who are subject to death; but in that case [concerning Melchizedek], they are received by one of whom it is testified that he lives on [perpetually].

Now if the crowning blessing was attainable by means of the Levitical priesthood--for as resting on this foundation the people received the Law, to which they are still subject-- what further need was there for a Priest of a different kind to be raised up belonging to the order of Melchizedek instead of being said to belong to the order of Aaron?

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.

Dear friends, since I am eager to begin a letter to you on the subject of our common salvation, I find myself constrained to write and cheer you on to the vigorous defense of the faith delivered once for all to God's people.