Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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Interpretation
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, with a fear to dishonour or offend God. And not only to those pleased with reasonable service, but to the severe, and those angry without cause.
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This thought runs through 1 Peter 2:18-22.