1 Peter 2:18

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Summary

1 Peter 2:18

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Be

The good

But

Proverbs 11:20

General references

Genesis 30:29

Genesis 31:6

Bible References

Be

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, respecting God.

Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teachings will not be blasphemed.

Servants should to be in subjection to their masters (overseers) (employers). They should please them in all things and not talk back.

The good

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy.

But

A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will not know a wicked person.

Jehovah hates people who do evil. He takes righteous people into his confidence.

Respect for Jehovah means to hate evil. I hate: pride, and arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The lips of the righteous speak what is acceptable. The mouth of the wicked speaks perversion.

Those who are of a perverse heart are abomination to Jehovah. The way of the upright is his delight.

General references

Jacob responded: You know how much work I have done for you and what has happened to your livestock under my care.

You both know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.