1 Peter 2:18 Parallel Translations

Slaves, place yourselves under the authority of your owners and show them complete respect. Obey not only those owners who are good and kind, but also those who are unfair.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

DBY:

Servants, be subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.

ERV:

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

WEY:

Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.

WBS:

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

WEB:

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

YLT:

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

1 Peter 2:18 Cross References

XREF:

Ephesians 6:5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

James 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:18 {21} Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
(21) He goes to the duty of servants towards their masters, which he describes with these bounds, that servants submit themselves willingly and not by force, not only to the good and courteous, but also to the perverse and severe matters.

PNT:

2:18 Servants. Compare Eph 6:5 Col 3:22. The Greek word here, odune, is not that of the former passages, doulos, which means slaves. This may mean hired servants.
[Be] subject to [your] masters with all fear. That is the duty of the relation.
Not only to the good and gentle. Nor is a faithful obedience due to good masters only,
but also to the froward. To the perverse.

WES:

2:18 Servants - Literally, household servants. With all fear - Of offending them or God. Not only to the good - Tender, kind. And gentle - Mild, easily forgiving.

MHC:

2:18-25 Servants in those days generally were slaves, and had heathen masters, who often used them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to the masters placed over them by Providence, with a fear to dishonour or offend God. And not only to those pleased with reasonable service, but to the severe, and those angry without cause. The sinful misconduct of one relation, does not justify sinful behaviour in the other; the servant is bound to do his duty, though the master may be sinfully froward and perverse. But masters should be meek and gentle to their servants and inferiors. What glory or distinction could it be, for professed Christians to be patient when corrected for their faults? But if when they behaved well they were ill treated by proud and passionate heathen masters, yet bore it without peevish complaints, or purposes of revenge, and persevered in their duty, this would be acceptable to God as a distinguishing effect of his grace, and would be rewarded by him. Christ's death was designed not only for an example of patience under sufferings, but he bore our sins; he bore the punishment of them, and thereby satisfied Divine justice. Hereby he takes them away from us. The fruits of Christ's sufferings are the death of sin, and a new holy life of righteousness; for both which we have an example, and powerful motives, and ability to perform also, from the death and resurrection of Christ. And our justification; Christ was bruised and crucified as a sacrifice for our sins, and by his stripes the diseases of our souls are cured. Here is man's sin; he goes astray; it is his own act. His misery; he goes astray from the pasture, from the Shepherd, and from the flock, and so exposes himself to dangers without number. Here is the recovery by conversion; they are now returned as the effect of Divine grace. This return is, from all their errors and wanderings, to Christ. Sinners, before their conversion, are always going astray; their life is a continued error.

CONC:

Bad-humoured Considerate Cross Domestics Fear Froward Gentle Harsh Household Ill-tempered Kind Masters Orders Overbearing Respect Servants Subject Subjecting Subjection Submissive Submit Thoughtful Unreasonable Utmost Wicked Yourselves

Considerate Cross Fear Froward Gentle Good Household Ill-Tempered Kind Masters Orders Overbearing Respect Servants Show Slaves Subject Subjecting Subjection Submissive Submit Thoughtful Unreasonable Utmost Wicked Yourselves

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