1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Cross References
John 8:32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 6:18Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord’s freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.
Galatians 5:13For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.
Colossians 3:24knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ.
James 1:25But he that looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, this man not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his practice.
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 →