GOD'S WORD® Translation
Live as free people, but don't hide behind your freedom when you do evil. Instead, use your freedom to serve God.

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

Berean Study Bible
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

English Revised Version
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

King James Bible
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

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

Young's Literal Translation
as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

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