1 Peter 2:17
Honour all men: loue brotherly fellowship: feare God: honour the King.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
In Context
16As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.
Cross References
Genesis 20:11Then Abraham answered, Because I thought thus, Surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wiues sake.
Genesis 42:18Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.
Leviticus 19:32Thou shalt rise vp before the horehead, and honour the person of the old man, and dread thy God: I am the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:20And Dauid said to all the Congregation, Now blesse the Lord your God. And all the Congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed downe their heads, and worshipped the Lord and the King.
Proverbs 1:7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
Proverbs 24:21My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.
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 →