1 Peter 2:16

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Colossians 3:24

Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

James 1:25

But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 2:12

So speak you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.