1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and considerate, but also to the perverse.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4The perverse in heart shall be far from me; I will not know a wicked person.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, And the deceitful mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:20The perverse in heart are the abomination of the LORD; But the upright in their way are his delight.
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Colossians 3:22Bond-servants, 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 bond-servants to be in subjection to their own masters, in all things to be well-pleasing to them,
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 →