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1 Peter 2:14
or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Verse 14. _OR UNTO GOVERNORS_] By _king as supreme_, the Roman _emperor_ is meant; and by _governors_, ηγεμοσιν, are meant, leaders, governors, presidents, proconsuls, and other chief magistrates, sen...
OR UNTO GOVERNORS - Subordinate officers, appointed by the chief magistrate, over provinces. Perhaps Roman proconsuls are here particularly intended. AS UNTO THEM THAT ARE SENT BY HIM - By the king,...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
1 Peter 2:13. As Jesus had given them an example so were they to live in all dutiful obedience to human authority from the emperor to his representatives, since they constituted the bulwarks of the St...
GOVERNORS. Greek. _hegemon_. Elsewhere, only in the Gospels and Acts. The title of Pilate, Felix, and Festus. SENT. App-174. FOR. App-104. PUNISHMENT OF. vengeance on. Greek. _ekdikesis_ See Acts 7...
_as unto them that are sent by him_ The tense of the Greek participle indicates that obedience was to be paid to those who, from time to time, were the local representatives of the central supreme aut...
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙ͂ = here primarily the Emperor. If, as seems probable, the Epistle was written during the later years of Nero, loyalty to such an Emperor would be extremely difficult for Christians unless they...
ΉΓΕΜΌΣΙΝ _dat. pl. от_ ΉΓΕΜΏΝ (G2232) правитель. Это слово применялось во многих значениях, но в то время особенно обозначало губернаторов провинций или проконсулов, назначаемых императором или сенато...
DISCOURSE: 2396 SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT 1 Peter 2:13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them tha...
IV. DUTIES TOWARD OTHERS 2:133:12 _1. Toward Civil Government 2:13-17_ 1 Peter 2:13-14 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king as supreme; or unto governors, as...
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. GOVERNORS - subordinate to the emperor; delegated by Caesar to presid...
VERSE 14. OR UNTO GOVERNORS. These, as rulers, are placed over provinces by the emperor, and as such are sent by him to punish evil-doers, and to praise such as do not break the law....
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
Romans 13:1-2 says that all authority comes from God. So, if Christians do not obey their leaders, they are not obeying God. When Peter and Paul were writing their letters, there was a bad emperor (ru...
GOVERNORS, AS UNTO THEM THAT ARE SENT BY HIM. — This word will include _legati,_ proconsuls, propraetors, procurators, all officers entrusted with the administration of provinces. Of course the person...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
CHAPTER 7 CHRISTIANS AS PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD 1 Peter 2:11 THE Apostle opens his exhortations with a word eminently Christian: "Beloved." It is a word whose history makes us alive to and thankful fo...
The duty of the Christian towards the State; compare Romans 13:1-7. πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει, _every human institution_, including rulers (14), masters (18), and husbands (1 Peter 3:1). κτίζειν is used o...
THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S WALK 1 Peter 2:11 Strong desires must be kept under the stronger hand of the Christian soul-not extirpated but turned into right directions as God's providence points the way....
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
THE CHRISTIAN AND GOVERNMENT Peter had received some personalized instruction from the Lord as to his attitude toward governments and may have heard what Christ told Pilate (Matthew 17:24-27; John 19:...
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him (18) for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. (18) The second argument taken from the end of this order, which is...
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak again...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
14_Or unto governors, _or, _Whether to presidents_. He designates every kind of magistrates, as though he had said, that there is no kind of government to which we ought not to submit. He confirms thi...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
OR UNTO GOVERNORS,.... Inferior magistrates, such as were under the Roman emperor; as proconsuls, procurators, c. such as Pontius Pilate, Felix, and Festus, who had under the emperor the government of...
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. Ver. 14. _Or unto governors_] In the kingdom of Christ, this is wonderfu...
_Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man_ Greek, παση ανθρωπινη κτισει, _to every human constitution_ of government, under which you are placed by Divine Providence, and which is formed instrument...
THE PRAISE OF THEM THAT DO WELL; their protection, security, and comfort....
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
_ 1 Peter 2:14 ‘or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right'_ ‘OR TO GOVERNORS AS SENT BY HIM' -These Christians lived in Roman provinces (1 Pet...
13-17 A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those du...
OR UNTO GOVERNORS; he seems immediately to intend the governors of provinces under the Roman emperors, such as Pilate, Felix, Festus were in Judea, Sergius Paulus in Cyprus, ACTS 13:7; and other place...
1 Peter 2:14 or G1535 governors G2232 as G5613 sent G3992 (G5746) by G1223 him G846 for G1519...
THEIR OBEDIENCE AND HEAVENLY CONNECTION IS TO BE REVEALED BY THEIR LIVES AND BY THEIR DUE SUBMISSION TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY IN THE SAME WAY AS CHRIST SUBMITTED HIMSELF THROUGH SUFFERING AND THEREBY WROUG...
‘Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king, as supreme; or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.' Christians...
THEY ARE TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE AUTHORITIES (1 PETER 2:13). He emphasises here that being sojourners does not mean that Christians are rebels or that they deny their responsibilities towards authority....
The relative duties of Christians are now taken up as essentially concerned in that self-restraint and seemliness of conduct which was to be the best refutation of mischievous misrepresentation, and t...
1 Peter 2:14. OR TO GOVERNORS, _I.E_ administrators of provinces, procurators, propraetors, proconsuls, as also Asiarchs and other officials. Wycliffe renders it ‘dukes;' Tyndale, Cranmer, the Genevan...
UNTO GOVERNORS (ηγεμοσιν). Dative again of ηγεμων, a leader (from ηγεομα, to lead), old and common word (Matthew 10:18).AS SENT BY HIM (ως δι' αυτου πεμπομενοις). Present passive participle of πεμ...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
AND TO THE GOVERNORS. "This means that Christians in every country are to obey the laws of these countries in everything not sinful or contrary to God's command (Acts 4:19; Acts 5:29), without conside...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—This belongs to the care Christians should take not to be in any sense an occasion of offence in Society (Romans 13:1). ORDINANCE OF MA...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
Romans 13:3; Romans 13:4...
Sent [π ε μ π ο μ ε ν ο ι ς]. The present participle. In the habit of being sent : sent from time to time. By him. The king; not the Lord. Punishment [ε κ δ ι κ η σ ι ν]. Not strong enough. Better,...
Or to subordinate governors, or magistrates....