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 to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.
John 15:22
if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)
But
Ephesians 6:6
not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
Colossians 3:24
having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;