'Submit' in the Bible

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

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

Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,