1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse.
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17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Cross References
Psalms 101:4A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:20They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit (o. pneuma) is love, (o. agape) joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all 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 →