'Submit' in the Bible

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.

And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.

"You are not to make incisions in your flesh on account of the dead nor submit to cuts or tattoos. I am the LORD.

Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Joshua said, "Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the Lord God of Israel."

Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto 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."

So don't be stiff-necked like your ancestors were. Instead, submit to the LORD, enter his sanctuary that he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he'll stop being angry with you.

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

So now, you kings, do what is wise; you rulers of the earth, submit to correction!

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.

Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:Forget your people and your father’s house;

Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him!

I will incline my ear and consent to a proverb;On the lyre I will unfold my riddle.

For God alone my soul waits in silence and quietly submits to Him,For my hope is from Him.

Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Yet my people didn't obey my voice; Israel didn't submit to me.

The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

Do not incline my heart to [consent to or tolerate] any evil thing,Or to practice deeds of wickednessWith men who plan and do evil;And let me not eat of their delicacies (be tempted by their gain).

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.

My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn;Open your ears to my sayings.

Listen carefully and hear the words of the wise,And apply your mind to my knowledge;

“Submit your case,” says the Lord.“Present your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.

“Incline your ear [to listen] and come to Me;Hear, so that your soul may live;And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,According to the faithful mercies [promised and] shown to David.

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.

I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them repeatedly, saying, ‘Let every one of you turn now from his evil way and alter your behavior, and do not follow other gods to worship and serve them; and then you will live in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers. But you have not submitted or listened to Me.

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.

But they did not listen or turn [obediently] from their wickedness, and stop burning sacrifices and incense to other gods.

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.

The Seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”

However, don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

"Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.

Therefore, you must submit, not only because of wrath, but also because of your conscience.

To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded?

That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them; in order that the Good News might continue with you in its integrity.

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

and you will submit to one another out of reverence for the Messiah.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

to be sensible and pure, to manage their households, to be kind, and to submit themselves to their husbands. Otherwise, the word of God may be discredited.

Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, aiming to please them and not argue with them

Remind believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, and to be ready to do any honorable kind of work.

and you have forgotten the divine word of encouragement which is addressed to you as sons,“My son, do not make light of the discipline of the Lord,And do not lose heart and give up when you are corrected by Him;

You must submit to [correction for the purpose of] discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?

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.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Household slaves, submit with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live

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.