1 Peter 2:16

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

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

— WEB

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

— KJV

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

— ASV

Bible Verses About Freedom

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Galatians 5:13 "For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another."
Romans 6:22 "But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life."
1 Corinthians 7:22 "For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant."
Romans 6:18 "Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness."
Galatians 5:1 "Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage."
James 1:25 "But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be…"
Ephesians 6:6 "not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;"
James 2:12 "So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom."

Commentary

As free--as "the Lord's freemen," connected with Pe1 2:15, doing well as being free. "Well-doing" (Pe1 2:15) is the natural fruit of being freemen of Christ, made free by "the truth" from the bondage of sin. Duty is enforced on us to guard against licentiousness, but the way in which it is to be fulfilled, is by love and the holy instincts of Christian liberty. We are given principles, not details. not using--Greek, "not as having your liberty for a veil (cloak) of badness, but as the servants of God," and therefore bound to submit to every ordinance of man (Pe1 2:13) which is of God's appointment.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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