1 Peter 2:16 (KJV)

Thou and Ye

your more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

Subjects exhorted to pay all proper obedience to their civil governorsA 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...

Thompson Chains

Liberty (3)Last of 3 links
Garment of SinLast of 4 links
God's ServantsLast of 8 links

Cross References

Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
John 8:32–36 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. …
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Ephesians 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Topics

Citizens Duties of
Cloak Figurative
Commandments Precepts of, explicitly stated or implied in didactic epistles
Example Good
Government Duty of citizens to
Hypocrisy General scriptures concerning
Self-denial General scriptures concerning
Servant Figurative

Bible Dictionary

God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Greek and Strong’s

As Ὡς Hōs ὡς Conjunction
free ἐλεύθεροι eleutheroi ἐλεύθερος Adjective · nominative masculine plural
and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
not μὴ mē μή Conjunction
using ἔχοντες echontes ἔχω Verb · present active participle, nominative masculine plural
liberty τὴν tēn Article · accusative feminine singular ἐλευθερίαν eleutherian ἐλευθερία Noun · accusative feminine singular
for ὡς hōs ὡς Conjunction
a cloke ἐπικάλυμμα epikalymma ἐπικάλυμα Noun · accusative neuter singular
of maliciousness τῆς tēs Article · genitive feminine singular κακίας kakias κακία Noun · genitive feminine singular
but ἀλλʼ all’ ἀλλά Conjunction
as ὡς hōs ὡς Conjunction
the servants δοῦλοι douloi δοῦλος Noun · nominative masculine plural
of God Θεοῦ Theou θεός Noun · genitive masculine singular

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0