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

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.

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.

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

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 turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

But one who has looked intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer, this person will be blessed in what he does.

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is the Lord’s freed person; likewise the one who was called as free, is Christ’s slave.

So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.

not by way of eye service, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”They answered Him,“ We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say,‘ You will become free’?”Jesus answered them,“ Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.Now the slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven in front of people; for you do not enter it yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into indecent behavior and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

For we never came 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 have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.