Quotes About Submission

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

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

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.

A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,

and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

Then I said, ëHere I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.í”

Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Submit yourselves for the Lordís sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.