As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
WEB
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
YLT
as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
DBT
as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but asGod's bondmen.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New Testament1 Peter — Peter to scattered exiles across Asia Minor — five chapters on suffering and a living hope. A royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.
- Author
- The apostle Peter (1:1); Silvanus assisted (5:12)
- Date
- Early 60s AD, likely from ‘Babylon’ (Rome, 5:13)