1 Peter 2:15-16
New King James Version (NKJV)
“15 For this is the will of ‘God’ (Israel’s ‘Elohiym), that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men— 16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for [a]vice, but as bondservants of ‘God’ (Israel’s ‘Elohiym).”
Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon:
G-d: 430 ‘elohiym el-o-heem’ plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:–angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
