1 Peter 2:16
as free men, yet not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of God.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 men; love your brethren; fear God; and honor kings.
Cross References
John 8:32And ye will know the truth; and the truth will make you free.
Romans 6:18And when ye were emancipated from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he that is called by our Lord, being a servant, is God's freedman: likewise, he that is called, being a free man, is the Messiah's servant.
Galatians 5:13And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.
Colossians 3:24and know ye, that from our Lord ye will receive a recompense as the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord the Messiah.
James 1:25But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will 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 →