1 Peter 2:16 Cross References - BBE

¹⁶ As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

¹³ But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

³² And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free. ³³ They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free? ³⁴ And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin. ³⁵ Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does. ³⁶ If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

²² If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

¹⁸ And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

²² For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

¹ Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

¹³ Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

⁶ Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

²⁴ Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

⁵ For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

¹² Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

¹⁹ Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

⁴ For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.