Bible Verses About Submission to God

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

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.

Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.