1 Peter 2:16 - Modern King James Version

¹⁶ as free, and not having freedom as a cover of evil, but as 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

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

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

Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not use the liberty for an opening to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

James 1:25

But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.

James 2:12

So speak and do as those who shall be judged by the Law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

Jude 1:4

For certain men crept in secretly, those having been of old previously written into this condemnation, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.