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1 Peter 2:18
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1 Peter 2:18
18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
18Seruants, be subiect to your masters with al feare, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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1 Peter 2:18
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Under the authority, power, control, rule, or obedience of the person or power named.
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Persons who rule, own, teach, or exercise authority over others.
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Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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Alarm or dread; reverent awe; as a verb, to be afraid, revere, or cause fear.
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That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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Mild; meek; soft; bland; not rough, harsh or severe.
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But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Perverse, untoward, self-willed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
10Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
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Open the full verse study22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
25But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
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Open the full verse study5Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
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Open the full verse study1LET as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
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Open the full verse study32For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
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Open the full verse study22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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Open the full verse study17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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Open the full verse study13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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Open the full verse study4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
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Open the full verse study1NOW I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
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Open the full verse study20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
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Open the full verse study2To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
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Open the full verse study32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
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