14or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.


In Context

11 Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

12 having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

13 Be in subjection therefore to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to the king as supreme,

14 or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.

15 Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;

16 as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

1 Peter 2:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:14or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:14or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:14or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14Or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.