1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
19For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:20They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD: but such as are perfect in their way are his delight.
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;
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 →