1 Peter 2:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

1 Peter 2:17

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

Love

Honour

1 Samuel 15:30

1 Chronicles 29:20

Proverbs 24:21

General references

Hebrews 13:1

Bible References

Love

Since by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves for a sincere love of the believers, [see that you] love one another from the heart [always unselfishly seeking the best for one another],

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.”

Let love of your fellow believers continue.

Then I broke my second staff, Union, into pieces to break the brotherhood between Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and Israel (the Northern Kingdom).

Honour

Saul said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God.”

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless (praise, thank) the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed down and honored the Lord and to the king [as His earthly representative].

My son, fear the Lord and the king;
And do not associate with those who are given to change [of allegiance, and are revolutionary],

General references

So Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it on both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the Lord.

“God who says to a king, ‘You are worthless and vile,’
Or to princes and nobles, ‘You are wicked and evil’?

This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.

Let love of your fellow believers continue.