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1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your liberty as a cloak for maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover or pretext for evil, but [use it and live] as bond-servants of God.
[Live] as free people, [yet] without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but [live at all times] as servants of God.
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves.
Do this as God’s slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil.
Submit as people who are free, but not letting your freedom serve as an excuse for evil; rather, submit as God’s slaves.
You are free, but still you are God's servants, and you must not use your freedom as an excuse for doing wrong.
as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
As free ones, and not having the freedom as a covering of evilness, but as slaves of God,
As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
Live like free people, but don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as those who are serving God.
You are free people. But you are servants of God. So do not think, ‘Because I am free, I can do any bad thing that I want to do.’
Do this as free people, and do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but use it as servants of God.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an ·excuse [cover-up; pretext] to do evil. Live as ·servants [slaves] of God.
As free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Live as free people, but don’t hide behind your freedom when you do evil. Instead, use your freedom to serve God.
Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.
As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.
Live as free men. But do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as servants of God.
Live like free people, and do not use your freedom as an excuse for doing evil. Instead, be God’s servants.
Obey every man-made authority for the Lord’s sake—whether it is the emperor, as the supreme ruler, or the governors whom he has appointed to punish evil-doers and reward those who do good service. It is the will of God that you may thus silence the ill-informed criticisms of the foolish. As free men you should never use your freedom as an excuse for doing something that is wrong, for you are at all times the servants of God. You should have respect for everyone, you should love our brotherhood, fear God and honour the emperor.
as being free, yet not using your liberty to cover maliciousness, but as slaves of God.
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as slaves of God.
Live as free persons, and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.
You are free from the law, but that doesn’t mean you are free to do wrong. Live as those who are free to do only God’s will at all times.
Make the Master proud of you by being good citizens. Respect the authorities, whatever their level; they are God’s emissaries for keeping order. It is God’s will that by doing good, you might cure the ignorance of the fools who think you’re a danger to society. Exercise your freedom by serving God, not by breaking the rules. Treat everyone you meet with dignity. Love your spiritual family. Revere God. Respect the government.
As free people, do not use your liberty as a covering for evil, but live as servants of God.
Live as free people, · not as those using freedom as a cover-up for evil, · but as servants of God.
Live as free people, but don’t hide behind your freedom when you do evil. Instead, use your freedom to serve God.
Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God.
Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond-servants of God.
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
As servants of God, behave as free people, but do not use your freedom as a means to cover up wrongdoing.
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as servants of God.
Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.
Live as free people. But don’t use your freedom to cover up evil. Live as people who are God’s slaves.
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
Obey as men who are free but do not use this to cover up sin. Live as servants owned by God at all times.
For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
as free, and not as having freedom for a cloak of evil, but even as the servants of God.
As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
Live as free people (though don’t use your freedom as a veil to hide evil!), but as slaves of God.
As Avadim (Servants) of Hashem, live as Bnei Chorin (Sons of Freedom, Freedmen); yet do not use your cherut (freedom) as a cloak for concealing ra’ah (evil).
as free, yet not having freedom be a cloak for evil, but as servants of God.
Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.
Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.
Live as free people, but not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil. Rather, live as God’s slaves.
Live as those who are free and not as those who use their freedom as a pretext for evil, but live as God’s servants.
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
You are free people. But do not think, `I am free so I can do wrong things.' You are God's servants.
As free men, and not as having freedom the covering of malice, but as the servants of God.
as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
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