Bible Verses About Submission
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for submission, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,113 votes, led by Hebrews 13:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Submission
Hebrews 13:17110 votes
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.
James 4:7108 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Ephesians 5:21107 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1 Peter 5:576 votes
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.
Luke 22:4267 votes
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Ephesians 5:2261 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:2461 votes
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
1 Peter 5:658 votes
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Romans 8:754 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Ephesians 5:2553 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 14:3448 votes
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.
Colossians 3:1842 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Romans 13:1-741 votes
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.
1 Peter 3:5-640 votes
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:
Matthew 26:3937 votes
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Romans 13:137 votes
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.
1 Peter 2:13-1437 votes
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter 3:135 votes
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;
Genesis 3:1634 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:21-3334 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Philippians 2:3-834 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Titus 2:534 votes
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Romans 7:432 votes
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
1 Peter 2:1331 votes
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Titus 3:127 votes
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
What does the Bible say about submission?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:17 on the subject of submission. Across 2,113 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 4:7, Ephesians 5:21, 1 Peter 5:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.