1 Peter 2:16

A Call To Good Works

¹⁵ For God's will is this--that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right. ¹⁶ Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God. ¹⁷ Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

Servants of God

Slaves of God

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

James 1:25

But he who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of Freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice--that man will be blessed in what he does.

Matthew 23:13

But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

John 8:32-36

And you find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

Ephesians 6:6

Not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please men, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.

Colossians 3:24

Since you know that it is from the Master that you will receive the inheritance which will be your recompense. You are serving Christ, the Master.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that.

James 2:12

Therefore, speak and act as men who are to be judged by the 'Law of Freedom.'

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

Jude 1:4

For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.