THEOSIS1 Peter 2:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
ως ελευθεροι και μη ως επικαλυμμα εχοντες της κακιας την ελευθεριαν αλλ ως δουλοι θεου
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Gal 5:13For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.
- Rom 6:22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.
- Rom 6:18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
- 1 Cor 7:22For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.
- Gal 5:1Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.
- Jas 1:25But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.
- Jas 2:12So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.
- Eph 6:6Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
The original text
Greek text, 15 words with lemma, transliteration and Strong’s number. Tap to expand.
- ὡςhōsasG5613 · ὡς
- ἐλεύθεροιeleutheroifreeG1658 · ἐλεύθερος
- καὶkaiandG2532 · καί
- μὴmēnotG3361 · μή
- ὡςhōsasG5613 · ὡς
- ἐπικάλυμμαepikalymmaa coveringG1942 · ἐπικάλυμμα
- ἔχοντεςechontesI haveG2192 · ἔχω
- τῆςtēstheG3588 · ὁ
- κακίαςkakiasevilG2549 · κακία
- τὴνtēntheG3588 · ὁ
- ἐλευθερίανeleutherianfreedomG1657 · ἐλευθερία
- ἀλλ᾽allbutG235 · ἀλλά
- ὡςhōsasG5613 · ὡς
- ΘεοῦtheouGodG2316 · θεός
- δοῦλοιdouloia male slaveG1401 · δοῦλος