"As free, and not using {your} liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {using: Gr. having}" — 1 Peter 2:16

1 Peter 2:16 · KJV

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

— 1 Peter 2:16

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Honour all {men}. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. {Honour all: or, Esteem all}

1 Peter 2 — Context

Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

As free, and not using {your} liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {using: Gr. having}

Honour all {men}. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. {Honour all: or, Esteem all}

Servants, {be} subject to {your} masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only {use} not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Romans 6:22

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

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called in the Lord, {being} a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, {being} free, is Christ's servant. {freeman: Gr. made free}

Romans 6:18

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

James 1:25

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.