1 PETER 2:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 2
“As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God's slaves — the paradox places Christian liberty (eleuther) and servitude (douloi theou, slaves of God) in tension: believers are 'free' (eleutheros) yet bound to God. The warning against using freedom 'as a pretext for wickedness' (kalon malalion epikalymma, literally 'as a covering for evil') establishes that Christian freedom is not license but renewed servitude to a higher power.
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