1 Peter 2:16

James Moffatt - New Testament

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

Romans 6:22

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

1 Corinthians 7:22

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

Romans 6:18

set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

James 1:25

Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.

James 2:12

Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

Ephesians 6:6

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

2 Peter 2:19

promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

Colossians 3:24

remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

Jude 1:4

for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

John 15:22

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin —