11 occurrences

'Submission' in the Bible

You shall have charge over my house, and all my people shall be governed according to your word and pay respect [to you with reverence, submission, and obedience]; only in [matters of] the throne will I be greater than you [in Egypt].”

“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.

“Remember that you should magnify God’s work,Of which men have sung.

Princes and envoys shall come from Egypt;Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands [with the offerings of submission] to God.

We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Then it sprouted and grew and became a low, spreading vine whose branches turned [in submission] toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

Gather yourselves together [in repentance], yes, gather [in submission],O nation without shame,

His affection is greater than ever as he remembers the obedience [to his guidance] that all of you exhibited, and how you received him with the greatest respect.

being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete.

But we did not yield to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would continue to remain with you [in its purity].

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