1 Peter 2:18
Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will know no evil thing.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to LORD, but such as are perfect in [their] way are his delight.
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Colossians 3:22Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
Titus 2:9Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,
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 →