Verse 16
1 Peter 2:16
Literal Standard Version
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as free, and not having freedom as the cloak of evil, but as servants of God (Elohim);
Original Language Text
greek
ὡς ἐλεύθεροι, καὶ μὴ ὡς ἐπικάλυμμα ἔχοντες τῆς κακίας τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, ἀλλ’ ὡς ⸂θεοῦ δοῦλοι⸃.
English Translation
As free, and not using your freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as servants of God.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 2 Context
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Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakin...
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as newborn babies, desire the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that you may grow up to salvation,
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if it so be that you tasted that the LORD is good,
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to whom coming—a living stone—having indeed been disapproved of by men, but with God (Elohim)—choice...
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and you yourselves are built up as living stones into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer...
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For this reason, also, it is contained in the Writing: “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, c...
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to you, then, who are believing—the preciousness; but to the unbelieving, the stone that the builder...
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and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving—to w...
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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that you may show f...
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who were once not a people, but are now the people of God (Elohim); who had not found mercy, but now...
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Beloved, I call on you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that war again...
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having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers,...
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Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the LORD, whether to a king, as the highest,
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whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evildoers, and a prai...
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because, so is the will of God (Elohim), doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish...
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as free, and not having freedom as the cloak of evil, but as servants of God (Elohim);
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give honor to all; love the brotherhood; fear God (Elohim); honor the king.
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Servants, be subject in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cr...
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for this is grace: if anyone endures sorrows because of conscience toward God (Elohim), suffering un...
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for what renown is it, if sinning and being battered, you endure it? But if, doing good and sufferin...
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for to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving to you an example, that y...
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who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,
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who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing Himself...
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who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree that having died to sins, we may live to righteous...
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for you were as sheep going astray, but now you turned back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your sou...
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