1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect. Be subject not only to the good and gentle masters, but also to the malicious ones.
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17Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4Perverse people will leave me; 1 I am not loyal to evil. 1
Proverbs 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. 1 I hate pride and arrogance, the evil way, 1 and perverted speech. I hate them. 1
Proverbs 11:20Yahweh hates those whose hearts are perverse, 1 but he delights in those whose ways are blameless. 1
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Colossians 3:22Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things, not with eyeservice as people pleasers, but with a sincere heart. Fear the Lord.
Titus 2:9Teach slaves to obey their masters in everything, to please them and not argue with 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 →