Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, be subject to every human creature because of God, whether it is to the king as preeminent, "
— 1 Peter 2:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;”
“Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; ”
“Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;”
“Submission to Authorities Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme”
“Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,”
“Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,”
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;”
Though in past times you were not a people, yet now you are the people of God. Though you had not obtained mercy, yet now you have obtained mercy.
Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.
Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.
Therefore, be subject to every human creature because of God, whether it is to the king as preeminent,
or to leaders as having been sent from him for vindication over evildoers, it is truly for the praise of what is good.
For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may bring about the silence of imprudent and ignorant men,
in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.