'Submit to' in the Bible
The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"
But do not be glad that the spirits submit to you, but be glad that your names are enrolled in heaven."
Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?
But we did not submit to them for a moment, in order that the truth of the good news might remain yours.
If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like
For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.
You must submit to it as discipline. God is dealing with you as his sons. For where is there a son whom his father does not discipline?
When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?
Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.
Submit to all human authority, for the Master's sake; to the emperor, as supreme,