1 Peter 2:16

Contemporary English Version 1995

You are free, but still you are God's servants, and you must not use your freedom as an excuse for doing wrong.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

My friends, you were chosen to be free. So don't use your freedom as an excuse to do anything you want. Use it as an opportunity to serve each other with love.

Romans 6:22

Now you have been set free from sin, and you are God's slaves. This will make you holy and will lead you to eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

When the Lord chooses slaves, they become his free people. And when he chooses free people, they become slaves of Christ.

Romans 6:18

Now you are set free from sin and are slaves who please God.

Galatians 5:1

Christ has set us free! This means we are really free. Now hold on to your freedom and don't ever become slaves of the Law again.

James 1:25

But you must never stop looking at the perfect law that sets you free. God will bless you in everything you do, if you listen and obey, and don't just hear and forget.

James 2:12

Speak and act like people who will be judged by the law that sets us free.

Ephesians 6:6

Try to please them at all times, and not just when you think they are watching. You are slaves of Christ, so with your whole heart you must do what God wants you to do.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise freedom to everyone. But they are merely slaves of filthy living, because people are slaves of whatever controls them.

Colossians 3:24

In fact, the Lord Christ is the one you are really serving, and you know he will reward you.

Matthew 23:13

You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won't go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in.

Jude 1:4

Some godless people have sneaked in among us and are saying, “God treats us much better than we deserve, and so it is all right to be immoral.” They even deny we must obey Jesus Christ as our only Master and Lord. But long ago the Scriptures warned that these godless people were doomed.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

You also know we didn't try to flatter anyone. God himself knows what we did wasn't a cover-up for greed.

John 15:22

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