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.

Cross-references · 24

• Prov 24:21My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:
• Rom 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
• Rom 13:7Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Phil 2:3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Exod 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Lev 19:32“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
• 1 Tim 6:1Let 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.
• Eccl 8:2I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
• Matt 22:21They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
• Ps 111:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
• Eph 5:21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
• 1 Chr 29:20Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
• Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 23:17Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
• Gen 42:18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
• John 13:35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
• Gen 22:12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
• Gen 20:11Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
• 1 Sam 15:30Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”
• Zech 11:14Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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