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1 Peter 2:18

WEB

18Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

KJV

18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

BSB

18Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect,[+] not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.

FBV

18If you are a servant then submit to your master—not just those who are good and kind, but those who are harsh masters as well.

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Extra References

Titus 2:9-10

9Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting, 10not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

Colossians 3:22-25

22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 23And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 25But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Ephesians 6:5-7

5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, 6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,

1 Timothy 6:1-3

1Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. 2Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

Proverbs 3:32

32For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Galatians 5:22

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Psalms 101:4

4A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

Proverbs 8:13

13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

James 3:17

17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Proverbs 11:20

20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.