1 Peter 2:16
Act as free people, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.
Open English Bible (US)
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
17Show honor to everyone, love the Lord’s followers, ‘revere God, honor the emperor.’
Cross References
John 8:32and you will find out the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Romans 6:18Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
Galatians 5:13Remember, friends, to you the call came to give you freedom. Only, do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence but serve one another in a loving spirit.
Colossians 3:24since you know that it is from the Master that you will receive the inheritance which will be your reward. You are serving Christ, the Master.
James 1:25but the person who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice – that person will be blessed in what they 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 →