1 Peter 2:18

Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

19For it is an acceptable thing with God, if, from a sense of duty to Him, a man patiently submits to wrong, when treated unjustly.

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Cross References

Galatians 5:22The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;

Colossians 3:22Slaves, be obedient in everything to your earthly masters; not in acts of eye service, as aiming only to please men, but with simplicity of purpose, because you fear the Lord.

Titus 2:9Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

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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