1 Peter 2:18

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but even to the froward.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

19For this is gracious conduct, if for conscience towards God, any man undergo sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

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Cross References

Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Titus 2:9Let servants be subject to their own masters, in all things to be agreeable to 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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