[和合本] 你们虽是自由的，却不可藉着自由遮盖恶毒（或作“阴毒”），总要作 神的仆人。
[新标点] 你们虽是自由的，却不可借着自由遮盖恶毒【或译：阴毒】，总要作 神的仆人。
[和合修] 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。
[新译本] 你们是自由的人，但不要用自由来掩饰邪恶，总要像上帝的仆人。
[当代修] 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。
[现代修] 你们是自由人，但不要用自由来掩盖任何邪恶；要作上帝的奴仆。
[吕振中] 你们要做自主的人，而不拿自主（或译：自由）以遮盖恶毒（或译：阴毒），却要做上帝的仆人。
[思高本] 你们要做自由的人，却不可做以自由为掩饰邪恶的人，但该做天主的仆人；
[文理本] 尔得自由、勿以自由而掩恶、惟如上帝之仆、
[GNT] Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.
[BBE] Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
[KJV] As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
[NKJV] as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
[KJ21] as free, and not using your liberty as a cloak for maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
[NASB] Act as free people, and (Lit not having)do not use your freedom as a (I.e., a way to conceal)covering for evil, but use it as bond-servants of God.
[NRSV] As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
[WEB] as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
[ESV] Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
[NIV] Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
[NIrV] By doing good you will put a stop to the talk of foolish people. They don't know what they are saying. God wants you to stop them.
[HCSB] As God's slaves, [live] as free people, but don't use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.
[CSB] As God's slaves, [live] as free people, but don't use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.
[AMP] [Live] as free people, [yet] without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but [live at all times] as servants of God.
[NLT] For you are free, yet you are God's slaves, so don't use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
[YLT] as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;