Verse 16. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak.
Christians are free from the law of sin. They are no longer under bondage to it, but you must not use this liberty as a covering for wrong-doing.
But as the servants of God.
You are the Lord's bondmen, and you live as his bondsmen, observing all of his laws. These lead you away from all evil conduct or wrong-doing.
Verse 16. _AS FREE_] The Jews pretended that they were a free people, and owed allegiance to God alone; hence they were continually rebelling against the Roman government, to which God had subjected t...
AS FREE - That is, they were to consider themselves as freemen, as having a right to liberty. The Jews boasted much of their freedom, and regarded it as a birthright privilege that they were free, Joh...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
1 Peter 2:13. As Jesus had given them an example so were they to live in all dutiful obedience to human authority from the emperor to his representatives, since they constituted the bulwarks of the St...
USING. having. CLOKE. Greek. _epikalumma._ Only here. The word _kalumma_ only in 2 Corinthians 3:13. SERVANTS. App-190....
_as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke_ The English text gives the impression that the word "free" is closely connected with the preceding verse. In the Greek, however, the adjective is in t...
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ὩΣ ἘΛΕΎΘΕΡΟΙ. The nominative connects the verse with 1 Peter 2:13. In submitting yourselves to the institutions of human society you will not be reverting to the old bondage of your heathen life from...
ΕΛΕΎΘΕΡΟΣ (G1658) свободный, освобожденный. Идеальная жизнь описывается как свобода, потому что в древнем мире разница между рабом и свободным была очень велика. Выкупленный на свободу мог жить в семь...
DISCOURSE: 2396 SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT 1 Peter 2:13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them tha...
AS FREE— The Gentiles, by becoming Christians, were freed from the bondage of sin; they were likewise free from subjection to the Mosaic law: they were become the _Lord's people,_ and _freemen._ Such...
IV. DUTIES TOWARD OTHERS 2:133:12 _1. Toward Civil Government 2:13-17_ 1 Peter 2:13-14 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king as supreme; or unto governors, as...
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. AS FREE - from sin, and to duty: 'the Lord's freemen' (1 Corinthians 7:22), connected with 1 Peter 2:15...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:16 malice, (o-12) In the Greek there are articles before 'liberty' and 'malice,' thus emphasizing the contrast. 'that thing liberty as cloak of that thing malice.'...
Jesus has set Christians free from the power of *sin. But this does not mean that that they can now do anything they like. They must obey God and do what is right. But it does mean that *sin is no lon...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
AS FREE. — This points at once to what was the gist of the accusation. The Christian took up a position of complete independence within, and professed himself in a certain sense to be above the laws,...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
CHAPTER 7 CHRISTIANS AS PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD 1 Peter 2:11 THE Apostle opens his exhortations with a word eminently Christian: "Beloved." It is a word whose history makes us alive to and thankful fo...
The duty of the Christian towards the State; compare Romans 13:1-7. πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει, _every human institution_, including rulers (14), masters (18), and husbands (1 Peter 3:1). κτίζειν is used o...
ὡς ἐλεύθεροι, the contrast with τῆς κακίας supports the connection of ἐ, in thought with ἀγαθοποιοῦντας, which explains the nature of the self-subjection required. Christians are _free_ (Matthew 17:26...
THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S WALK 1 Peter 2:11 Strong desires must be kept under the stronger hand of the Christian soul-not extirpated but turned into right directions as God's providence points the way....
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
THE CHRISTIAN AND GOVERNMENT Peter had received some personalized instruction from the Lord as to his attitude toward governments and may have heard what Christ told Pilate (Matthew 17:24-27; John 19:...
As free; to wit, from the slavery of sin, but take care not to make this Christian freedom and liberty a cloak for malice, as they do, who pretend that this makes subjects free from their obedience to...
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak again...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_CHRIST’S FREE-MEN_ ‘As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.’ 1 Peter 2:16 After affectionately enjoining upon his ‘dearly beloved’ the paramou...
_THE AMBITION OF LIFE_ ‘Servants of God.’ 1 Peter 2:16 I wish to set before you service as the great object and ambition of life. There can be no more princely motto than this ‘I serve.’ I. SERVIC...
16_As free _This is said by way of anticipation, that he might obviate those things which are usually objected to with regard to the liberty of God’s children. For as men are naturally ingenious in la...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
AS FREE,.... These converted Jews might value themselves on their freedom, partly as the descendants of Abraham, and so freeborn, and not to be brought into bondage to other people; and chiefly becaus...
As free, and not using _your_ liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Ver. 16. _As free_] _See Trapp on "_ Gal 5:13 _"_ As free, and not using, &c.] Free in respect of our...
_As free_ In the noblest sense, in consequence of your relation to Christ, and your interest in the merit of his death; (see on John 8:32; 1 Corinthians 7:22; Galatians 5:1;...
AS FREE; free from the service of Satan, and from slavish bondage to human ordinances. Compare Galatians 5:13. FOR A CLOAK OF MALICIOUSNESS; not abusing your liberty by making it a cover for doing wr...
AS FREE, AND NOT USING YOUR LIBERTY FOR A CLOAK OF MALICIOUSNESS, BUT AS THE SERVANTS OF GOD....
Obedience to the constituted authorities:...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
USING: _ Gr._ having...
_ 1 Peter 2:16 ‘Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as. covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.'_ _‘ACT AS FREE MEN'_ -‘live as free men'. 1. Christians have been liberated from s...
13-17 A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those du...
AS FREE; he prevents an objection; they might pretend they were a free people, as Jews, and therefore were not to obey strangers, DEUTERONOMY 17:15 1 THESSALONIANS 8:33; and made free by Christ. He an...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV [All this is declared,] that we may know that we shall give account to God not of deeds only, as slaves, but even of words and thoughts, as those who have truly rece...
1 Peter 2:16 as G5613 free G1658 yet G2532 not G3361 using G2192 (G5723) liberty G1657 as G5613 cloak...
‘As free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.' By this they will be recognising that, while as God's own children (1 Peter 1:3) they are free, they are no...
THEY ARE TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE AUTHORITIES (1 PETER 2:13). He emphasises here that being sojourners does not mean that Christians are rebels or that they deny their responsibilities towards authority....
1 Peter 2:16. AS FREE, AND NOT AS HAVING YOUR FREEDOM FOR A COVERING OF WICKEDNESS, BUT AS BOND SERVANTS OF GOD. Liberty is apt to degenerate into licence. Milton speaks of those who ‘Bawl for freedo...
The relative duties of Christians are now taken up as essentially concerned in that self-restraint and seemliness of conduct which was to be the best refutation of mischievous misrepresentation, and t...
AS FREE (ως ελευθερο). Note nominative again connected with υποταγητε in verse 1 Peter 2:13, not with φιμοιν in verse 1 Peter 2:14 (a parenthesis in fact). For this ethical sense of ελευθερος see Ga...
1 Peter 2:16 Christian Freedom. I. We are here warned against two great enemies of our souls, which are ever seeking to bring us into bondage, and to substitute for the true Christian liberty the fan...
1 Peter 2:16 I. The designation "servant of God" embodies an opinion or theory about human life. When a being like man finds himself in this present sphere of existence, with the endowments of thought...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
LIVE AS FREE MEN. _MacKnight_ says: "The Jews boasted in their having been at all times freemen; that is, in having been always governed by their own laws, John 8:33. In this sense, the precept _live...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:16 Compare Galatians 5:13. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—This belongs to the care Christians should take not to be in any sense an occasion of offence in Society (Romans 13:1). ORDINANCE OF MA...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Peter 2:19; Colossians 3:24;...
Using [ε χ ο ν τ ε ς]. Lit., having or holding. Cloke [ε π ι κ α λ υ μ μ α]. Only here in New Testament. Lit., a veil. The idea is that of using Christian freedom as a mask for ungodly license. Paul...
As free — Yet obeying governors, for God's sake....
Here our apostle answers an objection, which he foresaw the Christian Jews ready to make against this duty of subjection, namely, "that they were. free people, as Jews, and ought to preserve their lib...