16Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
16Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority,
14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
16 Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
18 Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
2:16As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2:16As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
2:16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
2:16as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.