Verse 16

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

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 6:22 : 22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
  • Eph 6:6 : 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
  • Col 3:24 : 24 having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 and the truth shall make you free.' 33 They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?' 34 Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin, 35 and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age; 36 if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
  • John 15:22 : 22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
  • Jas 2:12 : 12 so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;