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 thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
• Rom 12:10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
• Rom 13:7Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Phil 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Lev 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
• 1 Tim 6:1Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
• Eccl 8:2I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
• Matt 22:21They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
• Ps 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
• Eph 5:21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
• 1 Chr 29:20And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 23:17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
• Gen 42:18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
• John 13:35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• Gen 22:12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
• Gen 20:11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
• 1 Sam 15:30Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
• Zech 11:14Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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