16 Live as free people,(A) but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;(B) live as God’s slaves.(C)

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16 (A)Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but (B)living as servants[a] of God.

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  1. 1 Peter 2:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

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16 (A)as free, yet not (B)using liberty as a cloak for [a]vice, but as bondservants of God.

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  1. 1 Peter 2:16 wickedness

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block(A) to the weak.(B)

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But take care (A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block (B)to the weak.

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But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

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But (A)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become (B)a [a]stumbling block to those who are weak.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 8:9 cause of offense