Submission, Subjection: Quiet, meek love shown. Forgiving wrongs committed. Gentle answers to rough treatment. Serving and helping with a cheerful attitude no matter how one is treated. Bearing persecution with patience and returning only honor. Voluntarily putting self in position under one in authority. This is what I come up with as a definition for submission and subjection from my study of 1 Peter 2 and 3.
Never has God asked us to sin in submission to another. In fact he says that those we are to be in subjection to should see our "chaste conversation" or conduct, and that we very well may be persecuted because of our "well doing". (1 Peter 3:1-2 & 1 Peter 2:20)
Submission takes character and self control and most of all the grace of God.
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