1 Peter 2:16

A Call To Good Works

¹⁵ because thus it is the will of God, that doing good you should put to shame the ignorance of the ignorant people: ¹⁶ as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.

Servants of God

Slaves of God

Romans 6:22

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For the one having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ.

James 1:25

But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against the people: for you do not go in, neither do you permit those coming in to enter.

John 8:32-36

and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 15:22

If I did not come and speak to them, they had not sin: now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

Christ has set you free with freedom, Therefore stand, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

Ephesians 6:6

not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul;

Colossians 3:24

knowing that you will receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord. Serve the Lord Christ;

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For at that time we were not in word of flattery, as you know, nor in a pretext of covetousness, God is our witness;

James 2:12

So you say, and so you do, as about to be condemned by the law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have crept in, who long ago were written down to this judgment, ungodly, transforming the grace of God into impurity, even denying Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.