1 Peter 2:16

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

So then: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you close the kingdom of heaven before men. For you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering, you would not permit to enter.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

And having been freed from sin, we have become servants of justice.

Romans 6:22

Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For any servant who has been called in the Lord is free in the Lord. Similarly, any free person who has been called is a servant in Christ.

Galatians 5:1

Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude.

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.

Ephesians 6:6

Do not serve only when seen, as if to please men, but act as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Colossians 3:24

For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.

James 1:25

But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

So speak and act just as you are beginning to be judged, by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them freedoms, while they themselves are the servants of corruption. For by whatever a man is overcome, of this also is he the servant.

Jude 1:4

For certain men entered unnoticed, who were written of beforehand unto this judgment: impious persons who are transforming the grace of our God into self-indulgence, and who are denying both the sole Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.