1 Peter 2:16
as free (not using the freedom as a cover for evil), yet as slaves of God.
Family 35 New Testament
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
15Because such is the will of God, to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good:
17Respect everyone; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Cross References
John 8:32and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”
Romans 6:18So having been emancipated from the sin, you became enslaved to the righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For the one in the Lord who was called while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Similarly, the one who was called while free is Christ's slave.
Galatians 5:13Now you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not use that freedom as an opening for the flesh, but slave for one another through love.
Colossians 3:24knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward; because you serve the Lord Christ.
James 1:25But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer— he will 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 →