1 Peter 2:16

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that was called in the Lord, being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called, being free, is Christ's bondservant.

Galatians 5:1

With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to 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 ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness;

James 1:25

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old set forth unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.