1 Peter 2:18
Good News Translation
You servants must submit yourselves to your masters and show them complete respect, not only to those who are kind and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

New Revised Standard Version
Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh.

Contemporary English Version
Servants, you must obey your masters and always show respect to them. Do this, not only to those who are kind and thoughtful, but also to those who are cruel.

New American Bible
Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward.

be.

Ephesians 6:5-7 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ. . . .

Colossians 3:22-25 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. . . .

1 Timothy 6:1-3 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. . . .

Titus 2:9,10 Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things pleasing, not gainsaying: . . .

the good.

2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

but.

Psalm 101:4 The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.

Proverbs 3:32 Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed.

Proverbs 8:13 Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

Proverbs 10:32 A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.

Proverbs 11:20 Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.

Context
Submission to Authorities
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. 19For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.…
Cross References
Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

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.

Titus 3:2
To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

1 Peter 2:17
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