1 Peter 2:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[Live] as free people, [yet] without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but [live at all times] as servants of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Do this as God’s slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

1 Peter 2:16 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 23:13

‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.   Now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

and having been set free from sin,  you became enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God,  you have your fruit, which results in sanctification   #– #and the outcome is eternal life!

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave  is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm,  then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called  to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity  for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

Ephesians 6:6

Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will  from your heart.

Colossians 3:24

knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy  motives   #– #God is our witness   #– #

James 1:25

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works #– #this person will be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

Speak and act as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

Jude 1:4

For some people, who were designated for this judgement long ago,  , have come in by stealth;  they are ungodly,  turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying  Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.