1 Peter 2:17

A Call To Good Works

¹⁶ Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves. ¹⁷ Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king. ¹⁸ Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

O God

Romans 13:7

Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Proverbs 24:21

Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,

Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

1 Samuel 15:30

Saul again replied, "I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God."

Matthew 22:21

They replied, "Caesar's." He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Hebrews 13:1

Brotherly love must continue.

1 Peter 1:22

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

Genesis 22:12

"Do not harm the boy!" the angel said. "Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me."

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

Exodus 20:12

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Leviticus 19:32

You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:20

David told the entire assembly: "Praise the Lord your God!" So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.

Psalm 111:10

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

Proverbs 1:7

Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 23:17

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the Lord all the time.

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

Zechariah 11:14

Then I cut the second staff "Binders" in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

John 13:35

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

Ephesians 5:21

and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Philippians 2:3

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

1 Timothy 6:1

Those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as deserving of full respect. This will prevent the name of God and Christian teaching from being discredited.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.