1 Peter 2:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As free, and not usingd your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. ”

• 1 Peter 2:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Peter 2:13-17 . 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...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  using . having. cloke . Greek. epikalumma. Only here. The word kalumma only in 2 Corinthians 3:13-16 . servants . App-190.

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ingeni...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2396 SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT 1 Peter 2:13-17 . Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unt...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. As free - The Jews pretended that they were a free people, and owed allegiance to God alone; hence they...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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. Su...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 P...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 law...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22-25 ; 1 Peter 2:1-3 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christian...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  The Christian Pilgrim's Walk 1 Peter 2:11-17 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...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 agai...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  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 pa...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 bec...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 resp...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 ; Galatians 5:13 ;)...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 l...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. A. D.  66.    ...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 Chri...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  They Are To Be Obedient To The Authorities ( 1 Peter 2:13-17 ). He emphasises here that being sojourners does not mean that Christians are rebels or that they deny their responsibilities towards a...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 13:1-7 ). Ordi...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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 tho...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1 Peter 2:1-3 . 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 thereb...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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. Pa...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Obedience to the constituted authorities:

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 7:22 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:5 ; 2 Peter 2:19 ; Colossians 3:24 ; Ephesians 6:6 ; Galatians 5:1 ; Galatians 5:13 ; James 1:25 ; James 2:12 ; John 15:22 ; John 8:32-36 ; Jude 1:4...

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• 1 Peter 2:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  As free — Yet obeying governors, for God's sake.

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