1 Peter 2:18
Seruaunts, be subiect to your masters with all feare, not onely to the good and courteous, but also to the froward.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
17Honour all men: loue brotherly fellowship: feare God: honour the King.
19For this is thanke worthie, if a man for conscience toward God endure griefe, suffering wrongfully.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will knowe none euill.
Proverbs 8:13The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
Proverbs 11:20They that are of a froward heart, are abomination to the Lord: but they that are vpright in their way, are his delite.
Galatians 5:22But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth,
Colossians 3:22Seruants, be obedient vnto them that are your masters according to the flesh, in all things, not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but in singlenes of heart, fearing God.
Titus 2:9Let seruants be subiect to their masters, and please them in al things, not answering again,
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 →