1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
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In Context
17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
19For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Proverbs 11:20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and 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 →