1 Peter 2:17
Good News Translation
Respect everyone, love other believers, honor God, and respect the Emperor.

New Revised Standard Version
Honor everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Contemporary English Version
Respect everyone and show special love for God's people. Honor God and respect the Emperor.

New American Bible
Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Honour.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Leviticus 19:32 Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord thy God.

Romans 12:10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

1 Timothy 6:1 Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed.

Love.

1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

John 13:35 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Hebrews 13:1 Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

Zechariah 11:14 And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might break the brotherhood between Juda and Israel.

Fear.

Genesis 20:11 Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

Genesis 22:12 And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.

Genesis 42:18 And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.

Proverbs 1:7 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 23:17 Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:

Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.

Ecclesiastes 8:2 I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God.

Matthew 22:21 They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Ephesians 5:21 Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

Honour.

1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord thy God.

1 Chronicles 29:20 And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.

Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.

Context
Submission to Authorities
16As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God. 17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward.…
Cross References
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.

Matthew 22:21
They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

Romans 12:10
Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

Romans 13:7
Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

1 Peter 1:22
Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

1 Peter 2:13
Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,

1 Peter 2:16
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