As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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Interpretation
A 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 these distinctly. Regard to those duties is the will of God, consequently, the Christian's duty, and the way to silence the base slanders of ignorant and foolish men.
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This thought runs through 1 Peter 2:13-17.