1 Peter 2:18
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What does 1 Peter 2:18 mean?
Servants, be subject to your masters
This was another notion of the Jews, that because they were the
seed of Abraham, they ought not to be the servants of any; and
particularly such as were believers in Christ thought they ought
not to serve unbelieving masters, nor indeed believing ones,
because they were equally brethren in Christ with them; hence the
Apostle Peter, here, as the Apostle Paul frequently elsewhere,
inculcates this duty of servants to their masters; see ( 1
Corinthians 7:20 1
Corinthians 7:21 ) ( Ephesians
6:5 ) ( Colossians
3:22 ) ( 1 Timothy
6:1 ) ( 2 Timothy
2:9 ) the manner in which they are to be subject to them is,
with all fear;
with reverence to their persons, strict regard to their commands,
faithfulness in any trust reposed in them, diligence in the
discharge of their duty, and carefulness of offending them: and
all this,
not only to the good and gentle;
those that are good natured, kind, beneficent, and merciful; that
do not use them with rigour and severity; are moderate in their
demands of service; require no more to be done than what is
reasonable; allow them sufficient diet, give them good wages, and
pay them duly:
but also to the froward;
the ill natured, morose, and rigorous; who exact more labour than
is requisite; give hard words, and harder blows; withhold
sufficiency of food from them, and keep back the hire of their
labours.
