1 Peter 2:16

Tree of Life Version

Live as free people, but not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil. Rather, live as God’s slaves.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

and after you were set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now, having been set free from sin and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit resulting in holiness. And the outcome is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise the one who was called while free is Messiah’s slave.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom, Messiah set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.

Galatians 5:13

Brothers and sisters, you were called to freedom—only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not just under your master’s eye as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Messiah doing God’s will from the soul.

Colossians 3:24

For you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as a reward. It is to the Lord Messiah you are giving service.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For as you know and God is witness, we never came with a word of flattery or a motive of greed—

James 1:25

But the one who looks intently into the perfect Torah, the Torah that gives freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts—he shall be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

So speak and act as those who will be judged according to a Torah that gives freedom.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption—for a person is a slave to whatever has overcome him.

Jude 1:4

For certain people have secretly slipped in—those who from long ago have been marked out for this judgment. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into indecency and deny our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.