1 Peter 2:16
Live as free men, not using your liberty as a cloak for evil, but live as the servants of God.
Revised King James 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
15For this is the will of God, that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men:
17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Cross References
John 8:32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 6:18Being then set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he who is called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he who is called while free, is Christ's slave.
Galatians 5:13For, brethren, you have been called to liberty; only do not use your liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but in love serve one another.
Colossians 3:24Knowing that from the Lord you shall receive your reward, the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.
James 1:25But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but an active doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.
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 →