1 Peter 2:16
As free men, and not as having freedom the covering of malice, but as the servants of God.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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
Cross References
John 8:32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 6:18And ye delivered from sin, be made (the) servants of rightwiseness.
1 Corinthians 7:22He that is a servant, and is called in the Lord, is a free man of the Lord. Also he that is a free man, and is called, is the servant of Christ (or is a servant of the Messiah).
Galatians 5:13For, brethren, ye be called into freedom [or into liberty]; only give ye not freedom [or liberty] into (an) occasion of (the) flesh, but by charity of [the] Spirit serve ye together (or but in the love of the Spirit serve one another).
Colossians 3:24witting that of the Lord ye shall take yielding of heritage. Serve ye to the Lord Christ. (knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive your inheritance as a reward. Serve the Lord Messiah.)
James 1:25But he that beholdeth into the law of perfect freedom, and dwelleth in it, and is not made a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work (s), this shall be blessed in his deed (s).
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 →