1 Peter 2:16
Yes, you are free people! So don't use your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but live as God's servants.
Free Bible 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
15By doing what is good and right God wants you to silence the ignorant accusations of foolish people.
Cross References
John 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Romans 6:18Now that you've been freed from sin, you've become slaves of doing what is morally right.
1 Corinthians 7:22If you were a slave when the Lord called you, you are now free, working for the Lord. In the same way if you were called when you were free, you are now Christ's slave!
Galatians 5:13You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don't use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.
Colossians 3:24because you know that the Lord will give you your reward—an inheritance! You're serving Christ the Lord!
James 1:25But if you look to the perfect law of freedom and follow it, not as someone who just listens and then forgets, but as someone who acts on it—then you will be blessed in what you do.
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 →