Quotes About Submission

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

then you are to say, ëThey belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.í”

But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him.

When Judah and his brothers arrived at Josephís house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Then Joseph removed his sons from his fatherís knees and bowed facedown.

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”