1 Peter 2:13
King James Version (KJV)
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
In context
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1 Peter 2:13 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
- WEB World English Bible
- Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
- ASV American Standard Version
- Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Be in subjection [therefore] to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to [the] king as supreme,
- WBS Webster Bible
- Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;