1 Peter 2:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

As servants of God, you should live as free people, but do not use this freedom to cover up your wrongdoing.

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

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

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

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

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

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