1 Peter 2:16

A Conservative Version

As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

For ye, brothers, were called to liberty, only not liberty for an opportunity to the flesh, but be servants to each other through love.

Romans 6:22

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

Romans 6:18

And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

Galatians 5:1

Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

James 1:25

But he who stooped to look into the perfect law, the one of liberty, and who remained, this man, who did not become a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, this man will be blessed in his doing.

James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.

Ephesians 6:6

Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

2 Peter 2:19

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

John 15:22

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