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OET (OET-LV) as free live, and not having the freedom as a_cover-up of_the evil, but as slaves of_god.
OET (OET-RV) Live as if you’re all free, but don’t use that freedom to cover up evil—use it as God’s slaves.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
ὡς ἐλεύθεροι
as free_‹live›
Peter is leaving out some of the words that a sentence would need in many languages to be complete. If it would be helpful in your language, you could supply these words from the context. These words could be: (1) the command to submit to authorities stated in 2:13. Alternate translation: “submit as free people” (2) an implied imperative verb. Alternate translation: “act as free people” or “live as free people”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὡς ἐπικάλυμμα & τῆς κακίας
as as /a/_cover-up & ˱of˲_the evil
Here, covering could refer to: (1) something to prevent people from knowing about one’s evil deeds. Alternate translation: “as a way to prevent others from seeing your evil” (2) an excuse or pretext to do evil deeds. Alternate translation: “as an excuse to do evil”
OET (OET-LV) as free live, and not having the freedom as a_cover-up of_the evil, but as slaves of_god.
OET (OET-RV) Live as if you’re all free, but don’t use that freedom to cover up evil—use it as God’s slaves.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.