1 Peter 2:16 Parallel Translations

Live as free people, but don't hide behind your freedom when you do evil. Instead, use your freedom to serve God.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

ASV:

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

BBE:

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

DBY:

as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

ERV:

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

WEY:

Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.

WBS:

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

WEB:

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

YLT:

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

1 Peter 2:16 Cross References

XREF:

John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Romans 6:22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22 For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ's slave.

James 1:25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

2:16 As free. Christians, freed from the bondage of sin and of the law, and having the free spirit of children,
not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, an excuse, for wickedness.
As the servants of God. They are God's servants.

WES:

2:16 As free - Yet obeying governors, for God's sake.

MHC:

2:13-17 A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those duties is the will of God, consequently, the Christian's duty, and the way to silence the base slanders of ignorant and foolish men. Christians must endeavour, in all relations, to behave aright, that they do not make their liberty a cloak or covering for any wickedness, or for the neglect of duty; but they must remember that they are servants of God.

CONC:

Act Base Bondmen Bondservants Bondslaves Cloak Cloke Conduct Cover Covering Cover-up Evil Excuse Free Freedom God's Liberty Malice Maliciousness Position Pretext Servants Using Wickedness Wrongdoing Yet

Act Base Bondservants Bondslaves Cloak Cloke Conduct Cover Covering Evil Excuse Free Freedom God's Liberty Malice Maliciousness Position Pretext Servants Use Using Wickedness Wrongdoing

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