Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Bible References
A cloke
Matthew 23:14
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.
John 15:22
Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:
But
Ephesians 6:6
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;
Colossians 3:24
knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ.