1 Peter 2:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave belonging to Christ.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul.

Colossians 3:24

since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,

James 1:25

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.

James 2:12

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

Jude 1:4

For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.