1 Peter 2:18
World English Bible (WEB)
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
In context
16 Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
1 Peter 2:18 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
- KJV King James Version
- Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Servants, [be] subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.