1 Peter 2:16 - 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.

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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 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

John 15:22

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

Romans 6:18

Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

Romans 6:22

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

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

Colossians 3:24

Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither have we used, at any time, the speech of flattery, as you know; nor taken an occasion of covetousness, God is witness:

James 1:25

But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 2:12

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

2 Peter 2:19

Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

Jude 1:4

For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.