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1 Peter 2:13
Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,
1 Peter 2:13 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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1 Peter 2:13 in other translations
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
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In context
10 Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,
12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13 Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,
14 Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good.
15 For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
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