1 Peter 2:17

A Call To Good Works

¹⁶ Live like free people, and do not use your freedom as an excuse for doing evil. Instead, be God's servants. ¹⁷ Honor everyone. Keep on loving the community of believers, fearing God, and honoring the king. ¹⁸ You household servants must submit yourselves to your masters out of respect, not only to those who are kind and fair, but also to those who are unjust.

O God

Romans 13:7

Pay everyone whatever you owe them taxes to whom taxes are due, tolls to whom tolls are due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear both the LORD and the king, and don't keep company with rebels.

Romans 12:10

Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other.

1 Samuel 15:30

"I've sinned," Saul said. "But please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me so I may worship the LORD your God."

Matthew 22:21

They told him, "Caesar's." So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

Genesis 20:11

"I thought that there's no fear of God in this place," Abraham replied, "and that they would kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 22:12

"Don't lay your hand on the youth!" he said. "Don't do anything to him, because I've just demonstrated that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only unique one, from me."

Genesis 42:18

Three days later, Joseph told them, "I fear God, so do this and you'll live.

Exodus 20:12

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Leviticus 19:32

"Rise in the presence of the aged and honor the elderly face-to-face. "Fear your God. I am the LORD.

1 Chronicles 29:20

Then David told the entire assembly, "Bless the LORD your God, please." So the entire assembly blessed the LORD God of their ancestors, bowing their heads and falling in the LORD's presence and before the king.

Psalm 111:10

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; sound understanding belongs to those who practice it. Praise of God endures forever.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 23:17

Never let yourself envy sinners; instead, remain in fear of the LORD every day,

Ecclesiastes 8:2

I advise doing what the king says, especially regarding an oath to God.

Zechariah 11:14

So I took the 30 shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury of the Temple of the LORD. Then I broke my second staff the one I had named "Union" - breaking the union between the house of Judah and the house of Israel.

John 13:35

This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.

Ephesians 5:21

and you will submit to one another out of reverence for the Messiah.

Philippians 2:3

Do not act out of selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility think of others as being better than yourselves.

1 Timothy 6:1

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.

1 Peter 5:5

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."