1 Peter 2:16
as free, and yet not using your liberty as a cloke for wickedness, but as the servants of God.
1770 John Worsley 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
15For so is the will of God, that by your good behaviour ye may silence the ignorance of foolish men:
17Give due honor to 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 6:18and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.
Galatians 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only abuse not this liberty for an occasion to indulge the flesh, but by mutual love serve one another.
Colossians 3:24knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ;
James 1:25But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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 →