1 Peter 2:18
Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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In Context
17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
19For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:20They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to Jehovah; 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 3:22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
Titus 2:9[Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; 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 →