1 Peter 2:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

Psalm 101:4

The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.

Proverbs 11:20

The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

Proverbs 3:32

For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Titus 3:2

To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

James 3:17

But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.