1 Peter 2:17
New International Version
Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.

New Living Translation
Respect everyone, and love the family of believers. Fear God, and respect the king.

English Standard Version
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Berean Standard Bible
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Berean Literal Bible
Honor everyone: love the brotherhood, fear God, Honor the king.

King James Bible
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

New King James Version
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

New American Standard Bible
Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

NASB 1995
Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

NASB 1977
Honor all men; love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

Legacy Standard Bible
Honor all people, love the brethren, fear God, honor the king.

Amplified Bible
Show respect for all people [treat them honorably], love the brotherhood [of believers], fear God, honor the king.

Christian Standard Bible
Honor everyone. Love the brothers and sisters. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the Emperor.

American Standard Version
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Honor every person, love your brethren, worship God and honor Kings.

Contemporary English Version
Respect everyone and show special love for God's people. Honor God and respect the Emperor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

English Revised Version
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Honor everyone. Love your brothers and sisters in the faith. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Good News Translation
Respect everyone, love other believers, honor God, and respect the Emperor.

International Standard Version
Honor everyone. Keep on loving the community of believers, fearing God, and honoring the king.

Literal Standard Version
give honor to all; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.

Majority Standard Bible
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

New American Bible
Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king.

NET Bible
Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

New Revised Standard Version
Honor everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

New Heart English Bible
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Young's Literal Translation
to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

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Context
Submission to Authorities
16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. 17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. 18Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.…

Cross References
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.

Matthew 22:21
"Caesar's," they answered. So Jesus told them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."

Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Romans 13:7
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

1 Peter 1:22
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:13
Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,


Treasury of Scripture

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

Honour.

1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Leviticus 19:32
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Love.

1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

John 13:35
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.

Fear.

Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

Genesis 22:12
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Genesis 42:18
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

Honour.

1 Samuel 15:30
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

1 Chronicles 29:20
And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.

Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

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1 Peter 2
1. He exhorts to put away wickedness;
4. showing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built.
11. He beseeches them also to abstain from sinful desires;
13. to be obedient to authorities;
18. and teaches servants how to obey their masters;
20. patiently suffering for well doing, after the example of Christ.














(17) Honour all men.--"These words have very briefly, and yet not obscured by briefness, but withal very plainly, the sum of our duty towards God and men; to men, both in general, honour all men, and in special relations, in their Christian or religious relations, love the brotherhood; and in a chief civil relation, honour the king. And our whole duty to God, comprised under the name of His fear, is set in the middle betwixt these, as the common spring of all duty to men, and of all due observance of it, and the sovereign rule by which it is to be regulated" (Leighton). St. Paul had said that this honour was to be paid to those to whom it was due; St. Peter says that this includes all men; there is not one who can be entirely despised, not one who has quite lost the likeness of Christ; Jews are not at liberty to despise even the idolatrous Gentiles.

Love the brotherhood.--See 1Peter 5:9, and Note on 1Peter 1:22. The brotherhood means, of course, all Christian men, who (mystically even now that the Church is divided, but then actually) formed a single confraternity. "All men," Christian or heathen, are to be "honoured," but there is a special sense in which love is only possible between fellow-Christians. For the converse proposition, see Matthew 5:44.

Fear God.--This enforces reverence for every law and ordinance of God, and therefore serves fitly to introduce the next precept. Rebellion against Nero is rebellion against God (Romans 13:2. Bengel compares Proverbs 24:21). . . .

Verse 17. - Honor all men. St. Peter illustrates the well-doing which he enjoins in ver. 15, drawing out his general exhortation into four rules of conduct. First, he bids us give honor to all men. The Christians of Asia Minor saw heathenism and vice all around them; they heard of the abominable life of Nero and his courtiers at Rome. They were conscious of a great and elevating change which had passed over themselves; St. Peter has just been enumerating the dignities and privileges of the Christian life. But they must not be lifted up; they must despise no one, but honor in all men the handiwork of God, created after God's own image, though sadly marred and defaced by sin. Respect is due to all men, of course in varying degrees and to be shown in different ways; but in some sense it is due to all, to the humblest and even to the worst. The aorist imperative (τιμήσατε) seems to lay down this principle as a sharp, definite rule, to be accepted at once, and to be applied as need arises, according to the circumstances of each case. The three following imperatives are present; the duties which they prescribe are viewed as continuous, recognized elements in well-doing. There was something new and strange in the command to honor all men; it is expressed forcibly, once for all, by the aorist imperative. Love the brotherhood. The word ἀδελφότης, brotherhood, is peculiar to St. Peter; it stands for the aggregate of Christian brethren regarded as one body in Christ. The Lord bids us "love our enemies." St. Peter's rule does not weaken the force of the Savior's precept. But love must vary in depth and degree according to the varying relations of life; and the love which true Christians feel for the like-minded must be one of its strongest forms. Fear God. Honor the king. The holy fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God as the King of kings will lead us to give due honor to earthly princes, who rule by his controlling providence. It was especially necessary to urge the fear of God as a motive, when the king to be honored was such as Nero.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Treat everyone with high regard:
τιμήσατε (timēsate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5091: From timios; to prize, i.e. Fix a valuation upon; by implication, to revere.

Love
ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

brotherhood [of believers],
ἀδελφότητα (adelphotēta)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 81: From adephos; brotherhood, i.e. The fraternity.

fear
φοβεῖσθε (phobeisthe)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5399: From phobos; to frighten, i.e. to be alarmed; by analogy, to be in awe of, i.e. Revere.

God,
Θεὸν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

honor
τιμᾶτε (timate)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5091: From timios; to prize, i.e. Fix a valuation upon; by implication, to revere.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

king.
βασιλέα (basilea)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 935: A king, ruler, but in some passages clearly to be translated: emperor. Probably from basis; a sovereign.


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