Bible verse
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
1 Peter 2:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Peter 2.
12 Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
14 or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
16 Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
17 Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
18 Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.
19 For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.
20 How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.
KJV
As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
ASV
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
ERV
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
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