1 Peter 2:16
As the sons of liberty, yet not as men who make their liberty a veil for their wickedness, but as the servants of Aloha.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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
17Honour all; your brethren love; and Aloha revere; and kings honour.
Cross References
John 8:32and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall liberate you.
Romans 6:18And when you were made free from sin, you became obedient to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he who a servant is called in the Lord, is the freeman of Aloha, so he who as a son of freedom is called, is a servant of the Meshiha.
Galatians 5:13But you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.
Colossians 3:24And know that from our Lord you receive the reward in the inheritance; for the Lord the Meshiha you serve.
James 1:25But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.
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 →