KJVServants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Servants, bein subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.
The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;
Servants, [be] subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.
1 Peter — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
5. Ye also, as lively or living stones, are built up The verb may be in the imperative as well as in the indicative mood, for the termination in Greek is ambiguous. But in whatever way it is taken, Peter no doubt meant to exhort the faithful to consecrate themselves…