1 Peter 2:17
Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
In Context
16As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.
Cross References
Genesis 20:11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Genesis 42:18And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:
Leviticus 19:32Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.
1 Chronicles 29:20And David said to all the assembly, Now praise LORD your God. And all the assembly praised LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and and did obeisance to LORD, and the king.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 24:21My son, fear thou LORD and the king, [and] do not associate with those who are given to change.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25
Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →