KJVAs free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but asGod's bondmen.
1 Peter — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
5. Ye also, as lively or living stones, are built up The verb may be in the imperative as well as in the indicative mood, for the termination in Greek is ambiguous. But in whatever way it is taken, Peter no doubt meant to exhort the faithful to consecrate themselves…