1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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
17Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.
Cross References
John 8:32and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 6:18but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For the one having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ.
Galatians 5:13For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.
Colossians 3:24knowing that you will receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord. Serve the Lord Christ;
James 1:25But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy 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 →