1 Peter 2:16

Good News Translation (US Version)

Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.

Romans 6:22

But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For a slave who has been called by the Lord is the Lord's free person; in the same way a free person who has been called by Christ is his slave.

Romans 6:18

You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

Freedom is what we have—Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.

James 1:25

But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice—you will be blessed by God in what you do.

James 2:12

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

Ephesians 6:6

Do this not only when they are watching you, because you want to gain their approval; but with all your heart do what God wants, as slaves of Christ.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.

Colossians 3:24

Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward what he has kept for his people. For Christ is the real Master you serve.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people's faces, but you yourselves don't go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter!

Jude 1:4

For some godless people have slipped in unnoticed among us, persons who distort the message about the grace of our God in order to excuse their immoral ways, and who reject Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord. Long ago the Scriptures predicted the condemnation they have received.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed—God is our witness!

John 15:22

They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.