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Holman Christian Standard Bible
16 As God's slaves, [live] as free people, but don't use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.
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English Standard Version
16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
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King James Version
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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The Message Bible
16 Exercise your freedom by serving God, not by breaking the rules.
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New American Standard Bible
16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
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New International Version
16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
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New King James Version
16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
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New Living Translation
16 For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
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New Revised Standard
16 As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
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American Standard Version
16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
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The Bible in Basic English
16 As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
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Common English Bible
16 Do this as God's slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
16 Do this as God's slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
16 Submit as people who are free, but not letting your freedom serve as an excuse for evil; rather, submit as God's slaves.
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The Darby Translation
16 as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
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Good News Translation
16 Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
16 Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
16 Live as free people, but don't hide behind your freedom when you do evil. Instead, use your freedom to serve God.
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Hebrew Names Version
16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
16 as being free, yet not using your liberty to cover maliciousness, but as slaves of God.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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Lexham English Bible
16 [Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.
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New Century Version
16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as servants of God.
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New International Reader's Version
16 Live like free people. But don't use your freedom to cover up evil. Live like people who serve God.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
16 As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
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Revised Standard Version
16 Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
16 Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.
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SBL Greek New Testament
16 ὡς ἐλεύθεροι, καὶ μὴ ὡς ἐπικάλυμμα ἔχοντες τῆς κακίας τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, ἀλλ’ ὡς θεοῦ δοῦλοι.
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Third Millennium Bible
16 as free, and not using your liberty as a cloak for maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
16 as free, and not using your liberty as a cloak for maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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Tyndale
16 as fre and not as havinge ye libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes but even as the servautes of god.
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The Latin Vulgate
16 quasi liberi et non quasi velamen habentes malitiae libertatem sed sicut servi Dei
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The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha
16 quasi liberi et non quasi velamen habentes malitiae libertatem sed sicut servi Dei
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The Webster Bible
16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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World English Bible
16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
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Weymouth New Testament
16 Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.
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Wycliffe
16 As free men, and not as having freedom the covering of malice, but as the servants of God.
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Young's Literal Translation
16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
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