1 Peter 2:16

Free Bible Version

Yes, you are free people! So don't use your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but live as God's servants.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

But what a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves don't go in, yet you don't let anyone in who is trying to enter.

John 15:22

If I hadn't come and spoken to them, they wouldn't be guilty of sin—but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

Now that you've been freed from sin, you've become slaves of doing what is morally right.

Romans 6:22

But now that you're set free from sin, and have become God's slaves, the results will be a pure life—and in the end, eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

If you were a slave when the Lord called you, you are now free, working for the Lord. In the same way if you were called when you were free, you are now Christ's slave!

Galatians 5:1

Christ set us free so we could have real freedom. So stand firm and don't get burdened down again by a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don't use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.

Ephesians 6:6

Don't just work well when you're being watched to gain approval, but work like servants of Christ, honestly doing God's will,

Colossians 3:24

because you know that the Lord will give you your reward—an inheritance! You're serving Christ the Lord!

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know, we've never used flattering words. Nor were we covering up some greedy, selfish attitude—as God is our witness!

James 1:25

But if you look to the perfect law of freedom and follow it, not as someone who just listens and then forgets, but as someone who acts on it—then you will be blessed in what you do.

James 2:12

You should speak and act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, even though they themselves are slaves to depravity. “You are a slave to whatever conquers you.”

Jude 1:4

For some people have quietly crept in among you. They were written about and condemned a long time ago, for they are wicked people who pervert God's grace, turning it into a license to immorality, while also denying our Lord and master Jesus Christ.