1 Peter 2:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.

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, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

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

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you are serving the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for greed, as God is witness;

James 1:25

But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in his doing.

James 2:12

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

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.

Jude 1:4

For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.