1 Peter 2:16 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹⁶ As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [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)

¹⁶ as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice.

Romans 6:22

And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.

Galatians 5:13

For ye were called to liberty brethren; only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve ye one another.

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:

Colossians 3:24

Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

James 1:25

And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.

James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do, as about to be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve.

Jude 1:4

For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.