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OET (OET-RV) Honour others and be loving towards your fellow believers. Revere God as well as honouring the king.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
τὴν ἀδελφότητα
the brotherhood
Here, brotherhood refers to all Christian believers. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the community of believers”
2:17 the family of believers: Literally the brotherhood; see study note on 5:9.
• Fear God, and respect the king: Peter might be reflecting on Jesus’ balanced statement about the Christian’s duty to both God and the government (see Matt 22:21).
OET (OET-RV) Honour others and be loving towards your fellow believers. Revere God as well as honouring the king.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.