1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as servants of God.
Noyes Bible
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
15For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;
17Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Cross References
John 8:32and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. In like manner the freeman, who is called, is Christ's slave.
Galatians 5:13For ye, brethren, were called to liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.
Colossians 3:24knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance; serve Christ as your Lord.
James 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.
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 →