Look up each of the verses below and write down Bible principles that you can learn from them about this virtue. A “principle” is a “truth you can live by.”
The word SUBMISSION is not found in the Bible, but we will be studying the related words SUBMIT, SUBJECT, and YIELD. What does it mean to SUBMIT? Look up the word in the English dictionary and define it.
Look up the word SUBMIT in #1Co 16:16 and write the Greek definition.
Now using an English dictionary define YIELD.
Look up the word YIELD in Ro 6:13 and write the Greek definition.
Ro 10:3 (where does submission begin)
Lk 2:51 (read the context)
Ro 6:13
Ro 6:16
Ro 6:19
Ro 8:7
Ro 13:1
1Co 16:15-16
Eph 5:21
Eph 5:22
Eph 5:24
Col 3:18
Tit 3:1
Heb 13:17
Jas 4:7
1Pe 2:13
1Pe 2:18
1Pe 5:5
After seeing what God has to say about submission, stop a moment and ask God to show you at least two areas in your life where you are struggling with submission and briefly list them below. Admitting the need is the first step to correcting it.
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