1 Peter 2:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ [You who are] household servants, be submissive to your masters with all [proper] respect, not only to those who are kind and considerate and reasonable, but also to those who are surly (overbearing, unjust, and crooked).

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Household slaves, submit by accepting the authority of your masters with all respect. Do this not only to good and kind masters but also to those who are harsh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and meek, but also to the unruly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ 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 Cross References

Psalm 101:4

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: But the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

Proverbs 11:20

They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD: But such as are perfect in their way are his delight.

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD: But his secret is with the upright.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the froward mouth, do I hate.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Titus 3:2

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, shewing all meekness toward all men.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.