16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.

16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

16 For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.

16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as servants of God.

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

16 as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God’s bondmen.

16 Live as free people, but don’t hide behind your freedom when you do evil. Instead, use your freedom to serve God.

16 As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

16 As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

16 Live as free persons, and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

16 Live like free people. But don’t use your freedom to cover up evil. Live like people who serve God.

16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.