1 Peter 2:14
12 Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
16 Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
- KJV
- Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
- WEB
- or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
- ASV
- or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.
- DARBY
- or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.
- BLB
- or to governors as being sent by him for punishment to evildoers and praise to doers of good,
- ÅB
- eller landshøvdinger som utsendinger fra ham til straff for ugjerningsmenn, men til ros for dem som gjør godt.
- OTB
- eller landshøvdinger, som er utsendt av ham til å straffe dem som gjør ondt og rose dem som gjør godt.
- B1930
- eller landshøvdinger som utsendinger fra ham til straff for ugjerningsmenn, men til ros for dem som gjør godt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 13:3–4
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.
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