1 Peter 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [Live] as free people, [yet] without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but [live at all times] as servants of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Do this as God’s slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

1 Peter 2:16 Cross References

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Colossians 3:24

since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed;

James 1:25

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.

James 2:12

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

Jude 1:4

For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.