1 Peter 2:18

And those servants who are among you, be subject to your masters with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the hard and the severe.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

In Context

17Honour all; your brethren love; and Aloha revere; and kings honour.

19For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.

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Cross References

Galatians 5:22But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, prolonging of the spirit, benignity, goodness, fidelity,

Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in every thing your masters according to the flesh, not in the sight of the eye (only), as those who please men, but from a simple heart, and in the fear of the Lord.

Titus 2:9Let servants to their masters be submissive in every thing, and please them, 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 →

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