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Honour all men (pantas timēsate). Not with the same honour. Constative use of the aorist imperative.
Love the brotherhood (tēn adelphotēta agapāte). Present active imperative of agapaō, keep on doing it. Note the abstract adelphotēs (from adelphos, brother) in the collective sense, rare save in ecclesiastical literature, though in 1 Macc. 12:10; 4 Macc. 10:3, and in late papyri. It is a word for all Christians.
Fear God (ton theon phobeisthe). In both senses of reverence and dread, and keep it up (present middle imperative).
Honour the king (ton basilea timāte). Keep that up also. A fine motto in this verse.