1 Peter 2:16
in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
In Context
17Honor everyone. Love brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Cross References
John 8:32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
Romans 6:18And having been freed from sin, we have become servants of justice.
1 Corinthians 7:22For any servant who has been called in the Lord is free in the Lord. Similarly, any free person who has been called is a servant in Christ.
Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.
Colossians 3:24For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord.
James 1:25But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25
Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →