Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. NIV
WE ARE TO BE SUBMISSIVE...
Though elders are not mentioned by name they are the ones who "watch over your souls" - cf. Ac 20:28; 1Pe 5:12
To be submissive (submit to them, NASB) Gr., hupeiko - "to resist no longer, but to give way, yield (of combatants); metaphorically to yield to authority and admonition, to submit" – Thayer
Not only obey in cases where no sacrifice of self is required, and where you are persuaded they are right (so the Greek, for 'obey'), But 'submit yourselves' as a matter of dutiful yielding, but also when your judgment and natural will incline you in an opposite direction."
Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. NIV
To be submissive (submit to them, NASB) Gr., hupeiko - "to resist no longer, but to give way, yield (of combatants); metaphorically to yield to authority and admonition, to submit" – Thayer
Not only obey in cases where no sacrifice of self is required, and where you are persuaded they are right (so the Greek, for 'obey'), But 'submit yourselves' as a matter of dutiful yielding, but also when your judgment and natural will incline you in an opposite direction."
