1 Peter 2:16

The Passion Translation

As God’s loving servants, you should live in complete freedom, but never use your freedom as a cover-up for evil.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and you Pharisees—such frauds and pretenders! You do all you can to keep people from experiencing the reality of heaven’s kingdom realm. Not only do you refuse to enter in, you also forbid anyone else from entering in!

John 15:22

“If I had not come and spoken these things to the unbelieving world, they would not feel the guilt of their sin, but now their sin is left uncovered.

Romans 6:18

And now you celebrate your freedom from your former master—sin. You’ve left its bondage, and now God’s perfect righteousness holds power over you as his loving servants.

Romans 6:22

But now, as God’s loving servants, you live in joyous freedom from the power of sin. So consider the benefits you now enjoy—you are brought deeper into the experience of true holiness that ends with eternal life!

1 Corinthians 7:22

For truly, if you are called to a life-union with the Lord, you are already a free man! And those who were called to follow Jesus when they were free are now the Messiah’s slaves.

Galatians 5:1

At last we have freedom, for Christ has set us free! We must always cherish this truth and firmly refuse to go back into the bondage of our past.

Galatians 5:13

Beloved ones, God has called us to live a life of freedom. But don’t view this wonderful freedom as an excuse to set up a base of operations in the natural realm. Constantly love each other and be committed to serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

Always do what is right and not only when others are watching, so that you may please Christ as his servants by doing his will.

Colossians 3:24

For we know that we will receive a reward, an inheritance from the Lord, as we serve the Lord Yahweh, the Anointed One!

1 Thessalonians 2:5

God is our witness that when we came to encourage you, we never once used cunning compliments as a pretext for greed,

James 1:25

But those who set their gaze deeply into the perfecting law of liberty are fascinated by and respond to the truth they hear and are strengthened by it—they experience God’s blessing in all that they do!

James 2:12

So we must both speak and act in every respect like those who are destined to be tried by the perfect law of liberty,

2 Peter 2:19

They promise others freedom, yet they themselves are slaves to corruption, for people are slaves to whatever overcomes them.

Jude 1:4

There have been some who have sneaked in among you unnoticed. They are depraved people whose judgment was prophesied in Scripture a long time ago. They have perverted the message of God’s grace into a license to commit immorality and turn against our only absolute Master, our Lord Jesus Christ.