1 Peter 2:17

Honor all men; love your brethren; fear God; and honor kings.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16as free men, yet not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of God.

18And those among you who are servants, be subject to your masters, with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh and morose.

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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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