1 Peter 2:17
Honor everyone. Love brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
In Context
16in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.
Cross References
Genesis 20:11Abraham responded: “I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife.
Genesis 42:18Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: “Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.
Leviticus 19:32Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:20Then David instructed the entire assembly: “Bless the Lord our God.” And the entire assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers. And they bowed themselves, and they adored God, and next they reverenced the king.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Proverbs 24:21My son, fear the Lord, as well as the king. And do not mingle with detractors.
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 →