1 Peter 2:16 - Wesley's New Testament 1755

¹⁶ yet not having your liberty for a cloak 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.

1 Peter 2:16 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 23:13

But wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: ye go not in, neither suffer ye them that are entring to go in.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

Being then set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.

Romans 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called by the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; and in like manner, he that is called being free, is the servant of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

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

Colossians 3:24

for ye serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness: God is witness:

James 1:25

But whoso looketh diligently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and continueth therein, this man being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be happy in his doing.

James 2:12

So speak ye and so act, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

While they promise them liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him he is also brought into slavery.

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were of old described before with regard to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.