1 Peter 2:18
ye servants, being in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and reasonable, but also to the perverse.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
17Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king;
Cross References
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.
Titus 2:9Exhort servants to submit themselves to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting,
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 →