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SUBJECTION

(See OBEDIENCE)

examples of subjection:

♦ of Hagar to Sarah's authority:

• Genesis 16:9

♦ of men to forced labor:

• Judges 1:30; 1 Kings 4:6

♦ of freed people as servants again:

• Jeremiah 34:11, 16

♦ of the kingdom of Judah to the kingdom of Babylon:

• Ezekiel 17:12-15

♦ of the boy Jesus to His parents:

• Luke 2:51

♦ of the demons to the apostles in Christ's name:

• Luke 10:17, 20

♦ of the spirits of the prophets to the prophets:

• 1 Corinthians 14:32

♦ of the church to Christ:

• Ephesians 5:24

♦ of unbelievers to slavery through fear of death:

• Hebrews 2:15

divine act of subjection:

♦ of the creation to futility for future hope:

• Romans 8:20

♦ of all things to Jesus Christ:

• 1 Corinthians 15:27-28; Ephesians 1:22; Philippians 3:21; Hebrews 2:8; 1 Peter 3:22

♦ of Christ to the Father:

• 1 Corinthians 15:28 (cf. 11:3)

exhortation to subjection (or submission) for Christians:

♦ to governing authorities:

• Romans 13:1, 5; Titus 3:1

♦ to men who labor in ministry to the saints:

• 1 Corinthians 16:15-16

♦ for women to the teaching authority of male leadership:

• 1 Corinthians 14:34-35; 1 Timothy 2:11

♦ to one another:

• Ephesians 5:21

♦ to their spiritual leaders:

• Hebrews 13:17

♦ to God:

• James 4:7

♦ to civil ordinances:

• 1 Peter 2:13

♦ of servants to their masters:

• Titus 2:9; 1 Peter 2:18

♦ of wives to their own husbands:

• Ephesians 5:24; Titus 2:5; 1 Peter 3:1, 5

♦ to the Father of spirits who disciplines them:

• Hebrews 12:9

♦ to their elders:

• 1 Peter 5:5

resistance to subjection:

♦ of the mind of the flesh to the law of God:

• Romans 8:7

♦ of the Jews to the righteousness of God:

• Romans 10:3

♦ of Paul and his associates to legalistic Judaizers:

• Galatians 2:5

♦ of Christians to a yoke of slavery (i.e., the OT law):

• Galatians 5:1

♦ of Christians to human, legalistic decrees:

• Colossians 2:20-22

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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