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
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
But
Ephesians 6:6
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Colossians 3:24
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.