1 Peter 2:16 - Plain English Version16 You know that you are free from that old Jewish law, but that doesn’t mean that you can do things that are wrong. You belong to God, and you work for him, so you have to do whatever is right. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176916 as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition16 [Live] as free people, [yet] without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but [live at all times] as servants of God. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible16 Do this as God’s slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version16 in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God. Ver Capítulo |
Some of you are that sort of worker. Your boss owns you and controls you. But think about this. God picked you to join up with Jesus, and you are in his family, so now you are properly free. You are free from the bad things you used to do. They don’t control you any more. In the same way, some of you are free people, nobody owns you. But think about this. God picked you, and you are in Jesus’s family, so now Jesus owns you and you work all the time for him.
I talk like this because there are some bad people that secretly came into your group. That mob don’t want to do the things that God wants. Instead, they do all the bad things that they want to do. They reckon it is all right to do those bad things. They say, “God is good to us, so he lets us do these bad things.” Whenever they say that, they are really trying to change God’s true message. And they are turning away from Jesus, our only true boss. But God says in his book that he will punish those bad people.