1 Peter 2:16 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

¹⁶ Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil; live 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 devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive a more severe judgment.

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 having been set free from sin, you have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, you have fruit that leads to sanctification, and the end result is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman. In the same way, he who was called as a free man is Christ's slave.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the freedom for which Christ has set us free, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

You were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

Ephesians 6:6

Do not try to please them only when they are watching you, but act like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

Colossians 3:24

knowing that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward; for you serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

God is our witness that we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed, as you well know.

James 1:25

But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts. He will be blessed in what he does.

James 2:12

Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever masters him.

Jude 1:4

For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have crept in unnoticed. They are ungodly men who pervert the grace of our God, turning it into a license for sensuality. By doing so, they deny God, who is our only Master, and also the Lord Jesus Christ.