1 Peter 2:16

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 6:22 : 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 Cor 7:22 : 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.
  • Jas 1:25 : 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 blessed in what he does.
  • Gal 5:13 : 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.
  • Eph 6:6 : 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;
  • Col 3:24 : 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." 33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'" 34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
  • John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
  • Jas 2:12 : 12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 5:1 : 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.

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  • Gal 5:13
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    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.

  • 1 Pet 2:12-15
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    12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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

    14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

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

  • Eph 6:5-7
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    5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

    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;

    7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

  • 1 Pet 2:17-18
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    17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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

  • Col 3:22-23
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    22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

    23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  • Titus 2:8-10
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    8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

    9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

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

  • Rom 6:18-20
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    18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

    19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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

  • Gal 5:1
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    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.

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

    2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    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.

    23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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

  • Rom 6:15-16
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    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

    16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

  • Rom 6:22
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    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.

  • Jas 2:12
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    12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  • 1 Pet 5:2-3
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    2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

    3 neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2 But 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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    1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

  • 1 Thess 2:3
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    3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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

  • Phil 1:16
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  • 1 Pet 3:16
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    16 having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.