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

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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