The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”

The father of the young woman and her mother shall then submit the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

The Return of the Seventy-Two

The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!”

Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,

Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Warnings against False Teachers

If with Christ you died to the elemental principles of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.

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

and another reminded them, “Remember whence you came, and the father by whose hand Isaac would have submitted to being slain for the sake of piety.”