1 Peter 2:16
as free, and as not having your freedom for a vail of wickedness, but as God's servants.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king;
Cross References
John 8:32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he that was called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman, being called, is Christ's servant.
Galatians 5:13For ye were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Colossians 3:24knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.
James 1:25But he who looked into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and remained thereby, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, this man shall be happy in his doing.
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 →