1 Peter 2:16

English Majority Text Version

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

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 outcome, 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.