1 Peter 2:16

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

as free men, and not having freedom as a cover of evil, but as slaves of God;

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

John 15:22

If I had not come and had not spoken to them, they had no sin. But now they have no excuse as to their sin.

Romans 6:18

But having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now having been set free from sin, and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For the one having been called as a slave in the Lord is a free man of the Lord. And likewise, the one being called a free man is a slave of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

Therefore stand firm in the freedom with which Christ made us free and do not be held again with a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For, brothers, you were called to freedom. Only do not use the freedom for an opening to the flesh. But through love be slaves to one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the soul,

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither were we then found with a word of flattery, even as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness (God is witness),

James 1:25

But the one having looked into the perfect law of liberty, and having continued in it, this one not having become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing.

James 2:12

So speak and so do as being about to be judged through a law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising to them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

Jude 1:4

For certain men slipped in stealthily, the ones having been of old written before to this judgment, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God into unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.