1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
19For this is thankworthy, if for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
Proverbs 11:20A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,
Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:
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 →