1 Peter 2:17

Believers should honor everyone, love fellow Christians, fear God, and honor the ruler. These short commands order our duties toward all people and toward God.

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• Prov 24:21My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.
• Rom 12:10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
• Rom 13:7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
• 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Phil 2:3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
• Heb 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
• Exod 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Lev 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
• 1 Tim 6:1All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.
• Eccl 8:2Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
• Matt 22:21“Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
• Ps 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!
• Eph 5:21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
• 1 Chr 29:20Then David said to the whole assembly, “Blessed be the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Prov 23:17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
• Gen 42:18and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
• John 13:35By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
• Gen 22:12“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
• Gen 20:11Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
• 1 Sam 15:30“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
• Zech 11:14Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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