1 Peter 2:16
New Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חׇפְשִׁי
chophshîy
exempt (from bondage, tax or care)
ἀπόχρησις
apóchrēsis
the act of using up, i.e. consumption
דְּרוֹר
dᵉrôwr
freedom; hence, spontaneity of outflow, and so clear
מְעִיל
mᵉʻîyl
a robe (i.e. upper and outer garment)
πονηρός
ponērós
hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from G2556 (κακός), which refers rather to essential character, as well as fr...
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
Key Terms in This Verse
πονηρός ponērós
hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from G2556 (κακός), which refers rather to essential character, as well as from G4550 (σαπρός), which indicates degeneracy from...
Study G4190 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our...
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