1 Peter 2:16
Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.
Twentieth Century 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
17Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, ‘revere God, honour the emperor.’
Cross References
John 8:32and you find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.”
Romans 6:18Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master’s service is the Master’s freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
Galatians 5:13Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.
Colossians 3:24since you know that it is from the Master that you will receive the inheritance which will be your recompense. You are serving Christ, the Master.
James 1:25but he who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of Freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice — that man will 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 →