Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
1 Peter 2:17
Love. App-135.
brotherhood. Greek. adelphotes. Only here and 1 Peter 5:9.
Love. App-135.
brotherhood. Greek. adelphotes. Only here and 1 Peter 5:9.
Verse 17. _HONOUR ALL MEN._] That is, Give honour to whom honour is due, Romans 13:7. Respect every man as a fellow creature, and as one who may be a fellow heir with you of eternal life; and therefor...
HONOR ALL MEN - That is, show them the respect which is due to them according to their personal worth, and to the rank and office which they sustain. See the notes at Romans 13:7. LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD...
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...
_Honour all men_ The universality of the precept is not to be narrowed by any arbitrary restriction of its range to those to whom honour was due. St Peter had been taught of God "not to call any man c...
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...
ΤΙΜΉΣΑΤΕ … ἈΓΑΠΑ͂ΤΕ … ΦΟΒΕΙ͂ΣΘΕ … ΤΙΜΑ͂ΤΕ. Here we have an aorist imperative followed by three present imperatives. The usual distinction between aorist and present imperatives is that the present is...
ΤΙΜΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΤΙΜΆΩ (G5091) почитать. Обобщ. _aor._ обозначает действие вообще с особым акцентом на конечном моменте (RWP; VANT, 375-77), возможно, будет более правильно считать это _...
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...
FEAR GOD— See Proverbs 24:21. Perhaps no finer or stronger instances of the laconic stile are to be found, than in this place. It is remarkable, that they are required to _honour the emperor,_ though...
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...
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. HONOUR ALL MEN - according to the honour due in each case. Equals have a respect due to them. Christ has dignified our humanity by a...
VERSE 17. HONOR ALL MEN. That is, those to whom honor is due. Have respect to men in every station in life. Some may occupy stations of honor, some stations of profit. Show no disregard to any. LOVE...
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...
2:17 to (a-3) 'Shew honour' is the aorist; the other verbs in this verse are the present tense. Hence, 'shew honour' is more the act when occasion arises; the others, the constant habit of mind. broth...
When God created the world, he made people to be like him (Genesis 1:26). In John 3:16 Jesus says that God loves everyone in the world. This is why Christians must respect all people. The emperor Nero...
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...
HONOUR ALL MEN. — “These words have very briefly, and yet not obscured by briefness, but withal very plainly, the sum of our duty towards God and men; to men, both in general, _honour all men,_ and 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 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...
Sweeping clause based partly on Romans 13:7 f. (_cf._ Matthew 22:21), partly on Proverbs 24:21, φοβοῦ τὸν θεὸν υἰὲ καὶ βασιλέα καὶ μηθετέρῳ αὐτῶν ἀπειθήσῃς. πάντας τιμήσατε. The aorist imperative is u...
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:...
(20) (d) Honour all [men]. Love the (e) brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. (20) He divides the civil life of man, by occasion of those things of which he spoke, into two general parts: that 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...
_THE AMBITION OF LIFE_ ‘Servants of God.’ 1 Peter 2:16 I wish to set before you service as the great object and ambition of life. There can be no more princely motto than this ‘I serve.’ I. SERVIC...
_A RULE OF LIFE_ ‘Honour all men.’ 1 Peter 2:17 What is the true motive for the honour claimed from us for all men? I. IT IS THE REVELATION THAT MAN IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.—By his double endo...
_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...
This is a summary of what is gone before; for he intimates that God is not feared, nor their just right rendered to men, except civil order prevails among us, and magistrates retain their authority. T...
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...
HONOUR ALL MEN,.... To whom honour is due, according to the place, station, and circumstances in which they are, the gifts of providence and grace bestowed on them, and the usefulness they are of, whe...
Honour all _men_. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Ver. 17. _Honour all men_] As made in the image of God, as capable of heaven, and as having some special talent to trade with. _ Ho...
_As free_ In the noblest sense, in consequence of your relation to Christ, and your interest in the merit of his death; (see on John 8:32; 1 Corinthians 7:22; Galatians 5:1;...
HONOR ALL MEN; by showing them proper respect. THE BROTHERHOOD; Christians, who are all equally children of God. FEAR GOD; in such a manner as shall lead you to obey him. THE KING; the one who is a...
Obedience to the constituted authorities:...
HONOR ALL MEN. LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD. FEAR GOD. HONOR THE KING. Here the apostle mentions some specific instances in which his instructions concerning the behavior of the Christians over against the he...
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...
HONOUR: Or, esteem...
_1 Peter 2:17 ‘Honor all men; love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.'_ ‘HONOR ALL MEN' -‘Show honor to everyone'(Wms). 1. ‘Honor' is in the aorist tense, suggesting that we are to adopt this...
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...
HONOUR ALL MEN; viz. according as honour is due to them, according to their dignity, power, gifts, &c.: see ROMANS 12:10 ROMANS 13:7 PHILIPPIANS 2:3. LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD; though all may challenge sui...
1 Clement Full of holy designs, ye did, with true earnestness of mind and a godly confidence, stretch forth your hands to God Almighty, beseeching Him to be merciful unto you, if ye had been guilty o...
1 Peter 2:17 Honor G5091 (G5657) all G3956 Love G25 (G5720) brotherhood G81 Fear G5399 (G5737) God...
‘Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.' Thus the Christian's freedom should mean that he shows due respect and consideration to all people. He ‘honours all men'. This is to...
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 2:17. HONOUR ALL MEN. A group of four precepts now follows, which Leighton compares to ‘a constellation of very bright stars near together.' They are remarkable for the clear-cut form of expre...
HONOUR ALL MEN (παντας τιμησατε). Not with the same honour. Constative use of the aorist imperative.LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD (την αδελφοτητα αγαπατε). Present active imperative of αγαπαω, keep on doi...
1 Peter 2:16 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 fan...
1 Peter 2:17 The Obligation of Christians to the World and the Church. I. "Honour all men." Christians in deed and truth, called by the grace of God to be a peculiar people, separate from the world,...
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: Ha...
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,_ 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,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
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...
RESPECT ALL MEN. "Every human being ought to receive your respect! Love your fellow believers in Christ just as Christ loved you! Fear (reverence) God and respect the Emperor. You can do both, as Jesu...
_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 Chronicles 29:20; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 5:5; 1 Samuel 15:30;...
Honour all men — As being made in the image of God, bought by his Son, and designed for his kingdom. Honour the king — Pay him all that regard both in affection and action which the laws of God and ma...
Here are four very important duties recommended to us in this short verse. 1. To HONOUR ALL MEN; no man is to be despised by us, but every man duly respected according to his place and station. There...