1 Peter 2:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

5 For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[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)

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

Common English Bible

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

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

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

1 And whosoever shall swear by temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it:

John 15:22

And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Romans 6:18

Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

Romans 6:22

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

1 Corinthians 7:22

1 And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Galatians 5:1

0 I have confidence in you in the Lord: that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you, shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

Galatians 5:13

2 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

Ephesians 6:6

5 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace:

Colossians 3:24

Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts,

1 Thessalonians 2:5

4 For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own coutrymen, even as they have from the Jews,

James 1:25

Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

James 2:12

1 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

2 Peter 2:19

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

Jude 1:4

3 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion; wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.