Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 2:18
Servants — Literally, household servants. With all fear — Of offending them or God. Not only to the good — Tender, kind. And gentle — Mild, easily forgiving.
Servants — Literally, household servants. With all fear — Of offending them or God. Not only to the good — Tender, kind. And gentle — Mild, easily forgiving.
Verse 18. _SERVANTS_, BE _SUBJECT_] Ephesians 6:5; _"_Colossians 3:22_"_; and _"_Titus 2:9_"_. _WITH ALL FEAR_] With all submission and reverence....
SERVANTS, BE SUBJECT TO YOUR MASTERS - On the duty here enjoined, see the notes at Ephesians 6:5. The Greek word used here (οἰκέται oiketai) is not the same which is employed in Ephesians, (δοῦλοι...
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...
This is one of the noblest passages in the NT _on_ the real meaning of service. It raised the position of slave at one moment to the highest honour. A man could take all degradation out of it, for he...
SERVANTS. App-190. _ BE_ SUBJECT. submit, 1 Peter 2:13. MASTERS. App-98. WITH. in. App-104. GENTLE. Greek. _epieikes._ See Philippians 1:4; Philippians 1:5....
_Servants, be subject to your masters_ The counsels thus opening are carried on to the close of the chapter. The fulness with which slaves are thus addressed, here and in Ephesians 6:5-8, Col 3:22, 1...
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...
_The duty of Servants to Masters_ (cf. Camb. Gk. Test. _Col._ p. lxviii.; Lightfoot _Col._ 317 ff.) Slavery was interwoven with the texture of society under the Roman Empire. To prohibit slavery would...
ΟΊΚΈΤΑΙ _voc. pl._ от ΟΊΚΈΤΗΣ (G3610) домашний слуга. Это рабы, работавшие по дому, многие из них были хорошо образованы и занимали ответственные должности (Best; Goppelt; _см._ Флм.). Nom. с артиклем...
_1 PETER 2:18_.— _To the poor_ the _Gospel was preached;_ and many of the inferior sort, who were free from the incumbrance of riches, and the prejudices of the learned and mighty, embraced Christiani...
_2. TOWARD MASTERS 2:18-25_ 1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. _Expanded Translation_ You domestic serva...
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. SERVANTS, [ oiketai (G3610)] - 'household servants:' not [ douloi (G1401)] 'slaves;' in...
VERSE 18. SERVANTS, BE SUBJECT TO YOUR MASTERS. To such among the addressed believers as are in the station of a servant, I say to you it is your duty to be subject to the orders of those who are for...
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...
2:18 Servants, (c-1) 'Household servants,' as Romans 14:4 , not necessarily slaves. subject (d-3) See Note n, ch. 3.1....
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...
When someone behaves badly to another person, it is natural to be bad in return. Christians have to be different, even if it is hard. In Matthew 5:44-47 Jesus tells those who follow him to love their...
A servant is someone who works for someone else. This other person pays the servants for their work. These verses are for all people who work for an employer. Christians should behave better than othe...
SERVANTS — Second division of the second prudential rule: subordination social. This word is not the same as is used by St. Paul — _e.g.,_ Ephesians 6:5; Colossians 3:22 — but is used only besides in...
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 8 CHRISTIAN SERVICE 1 Peter 2:18 THE Gospel history shows very clearly that during our Lord's lifetime His followers were drawn largely from the ranks of the poor. It was fitting that He who...
FOLLOWING THE SHEPHERD OF SOULS 1 Peter 2:18 The argument from this point seems to be: Since you have been redeemed, live worthily of your heavenly calling in relation to your fellow-believers, to Go...
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...
PATIENTLY SUFFERING FOR THE MASTER Peter knew that in Christ, all men are equal (Galatians 3:28-29). However, that did not change the obligation a Christian would have to those over him. Even slaves w...
(21) Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. (21) He goes to the duty of servants towards their masters, which he describes w...
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...
_BROTHERHOOD_ ‘Love the brotherhood’ 1 Peter 2:17 This is an instruction which commends itself to our conscience, but which we find difficult to obey. The love of brethren seems, in itself, a reaso...
18_Servants, be subject _Though this is a particular admonition, yet it is connected with what is gone before, as well as the other things which follow; for the obedience of servants to masters, and o...
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...
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 belie...
Servants, _be_ subject to _your_ masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. Ver. 18. _To the froward_] Cross, crooked, trample, foolish. _Tortuosis, curvis._ The...
_Servants_ Οι οικεται, _household servants, be subject to your masters_ Though heathen, in all things lawful; _with all fear_ Of offending them or God; _not only to the good_ The tender, kind; _and ge...
ALL FEAR; all proper respect. THE FROWARD; wicked, peevish, morose....
SERVANTS, BE SUBJECT TO YOUR MASTERS WITH ALL FEAR, NOT ONLY TO THE GOOD AND GENTLE, BUT ALSO TO THE FROWARD....
The submission of slaves:...
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 2:18 ‘Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable.'_ ‘SERVANTS' -POINTS TO NOTE: 1. ‘the horrib...
18-25 Servants in those days generally were slaves, and had heathen masters, who often used them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to the masters placed over them by Providence, wit...
SERVANTS; the word is not the same which Paul useth, COLOSSIANS 3:22, but may well comprehend the servants he speaks of, as implying not only slaves, but those that were made free, yet continued still...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III For as it is enjoined on them, "to be subject to their masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward,"[135] Constituti...
1 Peter 2:18 Servants G3610 submissive G5293 (G5746) masters G1203 with G1722 all G3956 fear G5401 not G3756 only...
‘Household servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.' The fact that instructions were given to household servants/slaves would h...
The household is next dealt with as an institution obviously included under the ‘every ordinance of man' (1 Peter 2:13). And in the house the duty of servants is first declared. The bond-servant forme...
1 Peter 2:18. SERVANTS, SUBMIT YOURSELVES to your MATTERS. The term for ‘servants' here is different from the one by which Paul so frequently expresses the idea of the bond-servant. It occurs only thr...
SERVANTS (ο οικετα). Note article with the class as with ανδρες (1 Peter 3:7), though not with γυναικες (1 Peter 3:1). Οικετης, old word from οικος (house), means one in the same house with another...
Peter is very practical in his Epistles. In the early days of the faith, Christians occupied a far more difficult and dangerous position than they do today. They were few in number, and greatly despis...
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...
YOU SERVANTS. This includes both servants and slaves. Christianity did not change social status, and a servant was still a servant. As a Christian servant, each was to do their best, not only for a go...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:18 On slavery in the Greco-Roman world, see note on 1 Cor. 7:21. SERVANTS (bondservants) often entered into service to pay off a debt. They were not owned forever without the...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:18. SERVANTS.—Slaves. Many of the early Christians came from the ranks of slaves, or freedmen. And their freedom in Christ made their bondage to an earthly 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 6:1; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Colossians 3:22; Ephesians 6:5;...
Servants [ο ι κ ε τ α ι]. Household servants. So Rev., in margin. Not a common term in the New Testament, occurring only in three other passages : Luke 16:13; Acts 10:7; Romans 14:4. Some suppose that...
Observe here, 1. The order and method of our apostle in the exhortations given to Christians in this epistle: he first excites them in the general practice of their duty, and TO BE HOLY IN ALL MANNER...