1 Peter 2:16

New Messianic Version Bible

As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God-The Father.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

For, brethren, you2f have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Romans 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God-The Father, you2f have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called in the Lord - Kurios, [being] a slave, is the Lord - Kurios’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Moshiach [Messiah]’s slave.

Romans 6:18

Being then made free from sin, you2f became the servants of righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty which Moshiach [Messiah] has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

James 1:25

But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues [in it], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) in his deed.

James 2:12

So speak you2f, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Moshiach [Messiah], doing the will of God-The Father from the heart;

2 Peter 2:19

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Colossians 3:24

Knowing that of the Lord - Kurios you2f shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you2f serve the Lord - Kurios Moshiach [Messiah].

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] and Torah-teachers (Scribes), hypocrites because you close up the Kingdom of heaven before men; you yourselves do not enter and those who wish to enter you do not permit to enter”.

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God-The Father into lasciviousness (being lustful, loose or lewd; promoting lustful desires in others), and denying the only Lord - Kurios God-The Father, and our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah].

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you2f know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God-The Father [is] witness:

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.