Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Holman Bible
Honor everyone. Love
International Standard Version
Honor everyone. Keep on loving the community of believers, fearing God, and honoring the king.
American Standard Version
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Amplified
Show respect for all people [treat them honorably], love the brotherhood [of believers], fear God, honor the king.
An Understandable Version
Show [proper] respect for everyone. Love your [Christian] brothers [and sisters]. Have an awe-inspiring respect for God. Show honor to the king.
Anderson New Testament
Honor all men; love the brotherhood; reverence God; honor the king.
Bible in Basic English
Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.
Common New Testament
Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Daniel Mace New Testament
of God. Be respectful to all, love your brethren, fear God, and honour the king.
Darby Translation
Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Treat all men with respect: love the brotherhood: fear God: honor the king.
Godbey New Testament
Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.
Goodspeed New Testament
Treat everyone with respect. Love the brotherhood, be reverent to God, respect the emperor.
John Wesley New Testament
Honour all men, Love the brotherhood, Fear God,
Julia Smith Translation
Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
King James 2000
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.
Modern King James verseion
Honor all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.
Moffatt New Testament
Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.
Montgomery New Testament
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.
NET Bible
Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.
New Heart English Bible
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Noyes New Testament
Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Sawyer New Testament
Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
The Emphasized Bible
Unto all men, give honour, unto the brotherhood, shew love, unto God, give reverence, the king, hold in honour.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'
Webster
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Weymouth New Testament
Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.
Williams New Testament
Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor.
World English Bible
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Worrell New Testament
Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Worsley New Testament
Give due honor to all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Youngs Literal Translation
to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.
Themes
Civic duties » To honour rulers
Christian conduct » Fearing God
Government » Duty of citizens to
Government » Honoring the king
Love » For Christ » For the church
Love to man » Should be exhibited, toward » Saints
Reverence » For parents » For rulers
Rulers' » Of israel » To be reverenced
Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » To honour rulers
Topics
Authority, of human institutions
Reverence, And Social Behaviour
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 2:17
Prayers for 1 Peter 2:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Good Works
16 As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God. 17 Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king. 18 Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward.
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 13:7
Render therefore to all, the things due: tax to the man of tax, tribute to the man of tribute, fear to the man of fear, esteem to the man of esteem.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear thou LORD and the king, [and] do not associate with those who are given to change.
Romans 12:10
with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,
1 Samuel 15:30
Then he said, I have sinned. Yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship LORD thy God.
Matthew 22:21
They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Therefore, render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love abide.
1 Peter 1:22
Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,
Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.
Genesis 42:18
And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:
Exodus 20:12
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Leviticus 19:32
Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.
1 Chronicles 29:20
And David said to all the assembly, Now praise LORD your God. And all the assembly praised LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and and did obeisance to LORD, and the king.
Psalm 111:10
The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and all who act accordingly have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I [say], Keep the king's command, and that because of the oath of God.
Zechariah 11:14
Then I cut apart my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
John 13:35
By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.
Ephesians 5:21
submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ.
Philippians 2:3
in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.
1 Timothy 6:1
Let bondmen, as many as are under a yoke, regard their own masters worthy of all respect, so that the name of God and the doctrine may not be blasphemed.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.