1 Peter 2:16

A Call To Good Works

¹⁵ for so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men; ¹⁶ as free, and not holding your freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.

Servants of God

Slaves of God

Romans 6:22

But now, having been made free from sin, and having been made slaves to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

James 1:25

But he who looks carefully into a perfect law??hat of liberty??nd remains by it, becoming not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work??his man shall be happy in his doing.

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for ye do not enter, neither do ye suffer those who are entering in to enter.

John 8:32-36

and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

John 15:22

"Had I not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 6:18

and, having been made free from sin, ye were made slaves of righteousness.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13

For ye were called to freedom, brethren; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve one another;

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 recompense of the inheritance: ye are doing service to the Lord, Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither, at any time, did we use a word of flattery, as ye know, nor a semblance of covetousness, God is witness;

James 2:12

So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what one is overcome by this he has become enslaved.

Jude 1:4

For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were set forth for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into lasciviousness; and denying the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ.