1 Peter 2:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Peter 2:13-17

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 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 13:1-7). Ordinance of man.—Every human institution. A spiritual life can find expression in every form of governmental and social life. For the lord’s sake.—Lest reproach should come on Him, through reproach coming on you. King.—Here an abstract word for the person in chief authority. Then an emperor.1 Peter 2:14.—Even an... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:16

1 Peter 2:16 The text sets before us the limits of Christian liberty, the responsibility which lies upon every Christian for the right government of his private individual will, according to what he knows, or ought to know, or might have known, of the will of God. I. The love of liberty is generally said to be a feeling implanted in the heart of man. It begins to show itself in his earliest years. Even in our childhood we are all apt to show impatience at the control exercised over us by our... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:16-17

1 Peter 2:16-17 Christian Freedom. I. We are here warned against two great enemies of our souls, which are ever seeking to bring us into bondage, and to substitute for the true Christian liberty the fancied freedom, but real slavery, of self-indulgence. These two enemies are (1) the lust of the flesh, and (2) pride. Our own consciences will tell us that they are not enemies whose hostility is limited to persons placed in particular circumstances or to one particular period of Christian history,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Peter 2:13-17

DISCOURSE: 2396SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT1 Peter 2:13-17. 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 that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1-25

Chapter 2Wherefore 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. Set aside the envying, the hypocrisy, the guile, the evil speaking.And as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: If so be that you have tasted that the Lord is gracious ( 1 Peter 2:2-3 ).There are so many people who desire sensationalism. They desire... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Peter 2:1-25

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 them. Isaiah 28:0. Micah 4:0. 1 Peter 2:7 . Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: τιμη designates honour. On you who trust to this refuge, he confers honour and glory. You rest under the shadow of his throne, and are numbered with his saints. 1 Peter 2:9 . Ye are a chosen... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Peter 2:13-16

1 Peter 2:13-16Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man.The limits of subjection to civil rulersWhat if the rulers themselves be wicked men, and the government itself a tyranny?1. Let it be considered that there is probably no government, not even that of the worst slave plantation, that is not on the whole to be preferred to anarchy, or no government at all; and that, therefore, the argument from the uses of government never quite fails.2. There is no question whatever that, when human... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Peter 2:16

16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Ver. 16. As free ] See Trapp on " Gal 5:13 " As free, and not using, &c. ] Free in respect of our consciences, exempted from human powers, and yet, as servants of God, bouud in conscience to obey him in obeying them, so far forth as he doth command us to obey them. (Downame.) For a cloak ] Or cover. This were to put light not under a bushel, but under a dunghill. Beza thinks the apostle... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Peter 2:16

free: John 8:32-Zephaniah :, Romans 6:18, Romans 6:22, 1 Corinthians 7:22, Galatians 5:1, Galatians 5:13, James 1:25, James 2:12, 2 Peter 2:19 and: Jude 1:4 using: Gr. having a cloak: Matthew 23:14, John 15:22, 1 Thessalonians 2:5 but: Ephesians 6:6, Colossians 3:24 Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:10 - proclaim Psalms 119:32 - enlarge Acts 16:17 - the servants 1 Corinthians 8:9 - take Galatians 2:4 - liberty Galatians 4:26 - free 1 Peter 2:1 - malice read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Peter 2:16

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.As free — Yet obeying governors, for God's sake. read more

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