Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 2:13
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man — To every secular power. Instrumentally these are ordained by men; but originally all their power is from God.
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man — To every secular power. Instrumentally these are ordained by men; but originally all their power is from God.
Verse 13. _SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN_] In every settled state, and under every form of political government, where the laws are not in opposition to the laws of God, it may be very...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN - Greek, “to every creation of man,” (ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει anthrōpinē ktisei The meaning is, to every institution or appointment of man; to wit, of those...
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...
SUBMIT. Same word in 1 Peter 2:18 (subject). ORDINANCE. Greek. _ktisis._ Always translated "creature" or "creation", except Hebrews 9:11 and here. OF MAN. human. Greek. _anthropinos._ See Romans 6:19...
_Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man_ The precept, like those of Romans 13:1-7, points to this as the line of action which the circumstances of the time made most important, in order that the...
St Peter now turns to the duties of Christians in the various social relations of life. He has shewn that this world is not their home and that they must not adopt the fashion of this world as their s...
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...
ΎΠΟΤΆΓΗΤΕ _aor. imper. pass. от_ ΎΠΟΤΆΣΣΩ (G5293) подчинять, повиноваться. Beрующий должен слушаться гражданских властей (DLNT, 230-33). ΆΝΘΡΏΠΙΝΟΣ (G442) человеческий, установленный людьми, сделанны...
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...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE, &C.— See Romans 13:1; Romans 13:14. This epistle, we may recollect, is directed to the strangers scattered throughout divers countries; for in the ninth year of t...
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...
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN - `every human institution' (Alford); [ Ktisei (G2937)] 'every human c...
VERSE 13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN. Be obedient to the laws of the government where you may sojourn. Christianity does not require any of its devotees to be insurrectionists; upon...
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...
TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN. — Second prudential rule, subordination. Literally, _to every human creation, i.e.,_ to every office or authority which men have established. It is not only to ordinances of...
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:...
(15) Submit yourselves to (c) every ordinance of man (16) for the Lord's sake: (17) whether it be to the king, as supreme; (15) That which he spoke generally, he now expounds in detail, describing in...
To every human creature, [5] to every one whom the order of Providence has placed over you, whether it be to emperors or kings, who have the supreme power in kingdoms, or to governors of provinces; ob...
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...
13_Submit yourselves _He now comes to particular exhortations: and as obedience with regard to magistrates is a part of honest or good conversation, he draws this inference as to their duty, “Submit y...
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...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN,.... Or, "to every human creation", or "creature"; not to "all the sons of men", as the Syriac version renders it; or to all the individuals of mankind; for...
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Ver. 13. _Submit to every ordinance_] That is, although the ordinance or government in the mann...
_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...
EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN; all human laws which are not in opposition to the law of God. FOR THE LORD'S SAKE; for the purpose of honoring him....
Obedience to the constituted authorities:...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN FOR THE LORD'S SAKE, WHETHER IT BE TO THE KING, AS SUPREME,...
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 2:13 ‘Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to. king as the one in authority,'_ ‘SUBMIT YOURSELVES' -One of the common accusations directed against Christi...
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...
EVERY ORDINANCE; of all kinds, whether supreme or subordinate. ORDINANCE OF MAN; Greek, human creatures, which may be understood either, as MARK 16:15, every human creature for every man, only restrai...
Tertullian On Idolatry Therefore, as to what relates to the honours due to kings or emperors, we have a prescript sufficient, that it behoves us to be in all obedience, according to the apostle's pre...
1 Peter 2:13 G3767 yourselves G5293 (G5649) every G3956 ordinance G2937 man G442 for G1223 sake G2962 whether...
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....
1 Peter 2:13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES. The verb has this middle sense here rather than the purely passive force of ‘be subjected,' or (as the R.V. puts it) ‘be subject.' TO EVERY HUMAN INSTITUTION. The nou...
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...
BE SUBJECT TO (υποταγητε). Second aorist passive imperative second person plural of υποτασσω, to subject to, as in 1 Peter 3:22.EVERY ORDINANCE OF MAN (παση ανθρωπινη κτισε). Dative case of old an...
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...
TO EVERY HUMAN AUTHORITY. "You must not be like some who despise the government authorities. It is the Lord's will that you obey the government and be a good citizen (Romans 13:1-8)_."_ TO THE EMPEROR...
_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....
1 Timothy 2:1; 1 Timothy 2:2; 2 Peter 2:10; Ephesians 5:21; Jeremiah
Submit yourselves [υ π ο τ α γ η τ ε]. Rev., be subject. See Romans 13:1 sq. Ordinance of man [α ν θ ρ ω π ι ν η κ τ ι σ ε ι]. Lit., to every human creation or institution. Rev., creation, in margin....
Our apostle having exhorted them in general to take care that their conversation be honest among the Gentiles, he now decends to particular duties, which he advises them to be very exemplary in the pe...