1 Peter 2:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
  • Eph 6:6 : 6 not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Col 3:24 : 24 knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. [
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin. 35 And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth for ever. 36 If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
  • John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
  • Jas 2:12 : 12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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  • Gal 5:13
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    13For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

  • 1 Pet 2:12-15
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    12having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

    13Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

    14or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

    15For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

  • Eph 6:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

    6not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

    7with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:

  • 1 Pet 2:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

    18Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

  • Col 3:22-23
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    22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [

    23whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

  • Titus 2:8-10
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    75%

    8sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

    9[ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;

    10not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

  • Rom 6:18-20
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    75%

    18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

    19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

    20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

  • Gal 5:1
    75%

    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • 1 Tim 6:1-2
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    1Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.

    2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.

    22For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.

    23Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
    74%

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    73%

    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

    6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • Rom 6:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

    16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  • Rom 6:22
    72%

    22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

  • Jas 2:12
    72%

    12So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.

  • Gal 2:4
    72%

    4and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

  • Rom 14:16
    72%

    16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

  • 1 Pet 5:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

    3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

  • Phil 2:15
    70%

    15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    70%

    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
    70%

    17For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

  • Col 4:1
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    1Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

  • 1 Thess 2:3
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    3For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • Phil 1:16
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    16the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

  • 1 Pet 3:16
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    16having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.