Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

你们虽是自由的，却不可藉着自由遮盖恶毒，总要作神的仆人。

虽然你们是自由的，却不可藉着自由遮盖恶毒，总要作上帝的仆人。

虽然你们是自由的，却不可藉着自由遮盖恶毒，总要作神的仆人。

你们是自由的人，不要以自由为借口去犯罪作恶，要做上帝的奴仆。

你们是自由的人，但不要用自由来掩饰邪恶，总要像神的仆人。

做为自由人，你们不可拿自由当做恶事的借口，却要做神的奴仆。

你們雖是自由的，卻不可藉着自由遮蓋惡毒，總要作神的僕人。

雖然你們是自由的，卻不可藉着自由遮蓋惡毒，總要作上帝的僕人。

雖然你們是自由的，卻不可藉着自由遮蓋惡毒，總要作神的僕人。

你們是自由的人，不要以自由為藉口去犯罪作惡，要作上帝的奴僕。

你們是自由的人，但不要用自由來掩飾邪惡，總要像神的僕人。

你們要做自主的人，而不拿自主以遮蓋惡毒，卻要做上帝的僕人。

做為自由人，你們不可拿自由當做惡事的藉口，卻要做神的奴僕。

爾得自由、勿以自由而掩惡、惟如上帝之僕、

爾雖得自由、然勿以此乘機為惡、乃服役於上帝、

爾雖得自由、勿以爾之自由而掩惡、惟念己為天主之僕、

爾固宜為自由之人、胸中灑脫、無所拘礙；然萬勿以自由為名、而行其放縱恣肆、犯上作亂之實。當為天主之忠僕、

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

Live as free people. But don’t use your freedom to cover up evil. Live as people who are God’s slaves.

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.

Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves.

Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond servants of God.

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

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

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching– as people- pleasers– but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”“ We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied,“ and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,‘ You will become free’?”Jesus answered them,“ I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

“ But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.