1 Peter 2:16 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁶ as free, yet not using freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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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.

1 Peter 2:16 Cross References

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit [resulting] in sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's free [man]. Likewise he who is called as a free [man] is Christ's slave.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be loaded down again with a yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God wholeheartedly,

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither were we using flattering speech, as you know, nor covering up greed, God is [our ]witness.

James 1:25

But the [one] who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [in it], and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one shall be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising to them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated, by this [one] also he has been enslaved.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ.