1 Peter 2:16

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Cross References

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretence you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Messiah’s bondservant.

Galatians 5:1

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Messiah, doing the will of God from the heart,

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Messiah.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

James 1:25

But he who looks into the perfect Torah of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.