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1 Peter 2:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
1 Peter 2:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 As free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 [a][b]Honor all men: (A)love [c]brotherly fellowship: fear God: honor the King.
18 (B)[d]Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and courteous, but also to the froward.
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- 1 Peter 2:17 He divideth the civil life of man, by occasion of those things of which he spake into two general parts: to wit, into those duties which private men owe to private men, and especially the faithful to the faithful, and into that subjection whereby inferiors are bound to their superiors: but so, that Kings be not made equal to God, seeing that fear is due to God, and honor to Kings.
- 1 Peter 2:17 Be charitable and dutiful towards all men.
- 1 Peter 2:17 The assembly and fellowship of the brethren, as Zech. 11:14.
- 1 Peter 2:18 He goeth to the duty of servants towards their masters, which he describeth with these bounds, that servants submit themselves willingly and not by constraint, not only to the good and courteous, but also to the froward and sharp masters.
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