1 Peter 2:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

1 Peter 2:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Servants, be subject to your masters - On the duty here enjoined, see the notes at Ephesians 6:5-9 . The Greek word used here ( οἰκέται oiketai) is not the same which is employed in Ephesia...
1 Peter 2:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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...
1 Peter 2:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

This is one of the noblest passages in the NT on the real meaning of service. It raised the position of slave at one moment to the highest honour. A man could take all degradation out of it, for he...
1 Peter 2:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Servants . App-190. be subject . submit, 1 Peter 2:13 . masters . App-98. with . in. App-104. gentle . Greek. epieikes. See Philippians 1:4 ; Philippians 1:5 . also, &c . = to...
1 Peter 2:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18 Servants, be subject Though this is a particular admonition, yet it is connected with what is gone before, as well as the other things which follow; for the obedience of servants to maste...
1 Peter 2:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. Servants, be subject - See the notes on Ephesians 6:5 ; Colossians 3:22 (note); an...
1 Peter 2:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 2:18 .— To the poor the Gospel was preached; and many of the inferior sort, who were free from the incumbrance of riches, and the prejudices of the learned and mighty, embraced Chris...
1 Peter 2:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. Servants, х oiketai ( G3610 )] - 'household servants:' not х douloi ( G14...
1 Peter 2:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Servants — Second division of the second prudential rule: subordination social. This word is not the same as is used by St. Paul — e.g., Ephesians 6:5 ; Colossians 3:22 — but is used only besi...
1 Peter 2:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22-25 ; 1 Peter 2:1-3 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christian...
1 Peter 2:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Following the Shepherd of Souls 1 Peter 2:18-25 The argument from this point seems to be: Since you have been redeemed, live worthily of your heavenly calling in relation to your fellow-believe...
1 Peter 2:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the...
1 Peter 2:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 agai...
1 Peter 2:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

BROTHERHOOD ‘Love the brotherhood’ 1 Peter 2:17 This is an instruction which commends itself to our conscience, but which we find difficult to obey. The love of brethren seems, in itself, a...
1 Peter 2:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Servants, be subject to your masters ,.... This was another notion of the Jews, that because they were the seed of Abraham, they ought not to be the servants of any; and particularly such as were be...
1 Peter 2:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. Ver. 18. To the froward ] Cross, crooked, trample, foolish. Tortuosis, curvis....
1 Peter 2:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Servants Οι οικεται, household servants, be subject to your masters Though heathen, in all things lawful; with all fear Of offending them or God; not only to the good The tender, kind; and g...
1 Peter 2:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils l...
1 Peter 2:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. A. D. 66. ...
1 Peter 2:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Servants; the word is not the same which Paul useth, Colossians 3:22 , but may well comprehend the servants he speaks of, as implying not only slaves, but those that were made free, yet continue...
1 Peter 2:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Household servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.' The fact that instructions were given to household servants/slaves would...
1 Peter 2:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 Peter 2:18 . Servants .—Slaves. Many of the early Christians came from the ranks of slaves, or freedmen. And their freedom in Christ made their bondage to an eart...
1 Peter 2:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 2:1-3 . Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereb...
1 Peter 2:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 2:4 . To whom coming as to a living stone. The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with...
1 Peter 2:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Expositions 1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments ( Zechariah 3:3 ) of the old carnal life. So St. Pa...
1 Peter 2:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1 Peter 2:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 6:1-3 ; 2 Corinthians 10:1 ; Colossians 3:22-25 ; Ephesians 6:5-7 ; Galatians 5:22 ; James 3:17 ; Proverbs 10:32 ; Proverbs 11:20 ; Proverbs 3:32 ; Proverbs 8:13 ; Psalms 101:4 ;...
1 Peter 2:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

1 Peter 2:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Peter 2:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Peter 2:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 2:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 2:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 2:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Peter 2:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Peter 2:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes