1 Corinthians 7:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

Art thou called being a seruant? care not for it: but if yet thou maiest be free, vse it rather.

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  • Luke 10:40-41 : 40 But Martha was combred about much seruing, and came to him, and saide, Master, doest thou not care that my sister hath left me to serue alone? bid her therefore, that she helpe me. 41 And Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou carest, and art troubled about many things:
  • Luke 12:29 : 29 Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shal drinke, neither hag you in suspense.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at vnwares.
  • 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we bee Iewes, or Grecians, whether we be bonde, or free, and haue bene all made to drinke into one Spirit.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Iewe nor Grecian: there is neither bonde nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Be nothing carefull, but in all thinges let your requestes be shewed vnto God in praier, and supplication with giuing of thankes.
  • Phil 4:11 : 11 I speake not because of want: for I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to bee content.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Where is neither Grecian nor Iewe, circumcision nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: But Christ is all, and in all things.
  • 1 Tim 6:1-3 : 1 Let as many seruaunts as are vnder the yoke, count their masters worthie of all honour, that the Name of God, and his doctrine be not euill spoken of. 2 And they which haue beleeuing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather doe seruice, because they are faithfull, and beloued, and partakers of the benefite. These things teach and exhort. 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said,
  • 1 Pet 2:18-24 : 18 Seruaunts, be subiect to your masters with all feare, not onely to the good and courteous, but also to the froward. 19 For this is thanke worthie, if a man for conscience toward God endure griefe, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faultes, yee take it paciently? but and if when ye doe well, ye suffer wrong and take it paciently, this is acceptable to God. 21 For hereunto ye are called: for Christ also suffred for you, leauing you an ensample that ye should folow his steppes. 22 Who did no sinne, neither was there guile found in his mouth. 23 Who when hee was reuiled, reuiled not againe: when hee suffered, hee threatned not, but comitted it to him that iudgeth righteously. 24 Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sinne, should liue in righteousnesse: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • 1 Pet 5:7 : 7 Cast all your care on him: for he careth for you.

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  • 1 Cor 7:22-24
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    22For he that is called in the Lorde, being. a seruant, is the Lords freeman: likewise also he that is called being free, is Christes seruant.

    23Yee are bought with a price: be not the seruants of men.

    24Brethren, let euery man, wherein hee was called, therein abide with God.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20Let euery man abide in the same vocation wherein he was called.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For brethren, ye haue bene called vnto libertie: onely vse not your libertie as an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.

  • Gal 4:7
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    7Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:17-18
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    17But as God hath distributed to euery man, as the Lorde hath called euery one, so let him walke: and so ordaine I, in all Churches.

    18Is any man called being circumcised? Let him not gather his vncircumcision: is any called vncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

  • 1 Cor 7:26-27
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    26I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.

    27Art thou bounde vnto a wife? Seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? Seeke not a wife.

  • John 8:35-36
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    35And the seruant abideth not in the house for euer: but the Sonne abideth for euer.

    36If that Sonne therefore shal make you free, ye shalbe free in deede.

  • Exod 21:2
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    2If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shal go out free, for nothing.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18Being then made free from sinne, yee are made the seruants of righteousnesse.

  • Gal 4:31
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    31Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20For when ye were the seruants of sinne, ye were freed from righteousnesse.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.

  • Exod 21:4-5
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    4If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she hath borne him sonnes or daughters, he wife and her children shalbe her masters, but he shall goe out himselfe alone.

    5But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

  • 1 Tim 6:1-2
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    1Let as many seruaunts as are vnder the yoke, count their masters worthie of all honour, that the Name of God, and his doctrine be not euill spoken of.

    2And they which haue beleeuing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather doe seruice, because they are faithfull, and beloued, and partakers of the benefite. These things teach and exhort.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16Not now as a seruant, but aboue a seruant, euen as a brother beloued, specially to me: howe much more then vnto thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

  • Luke 17:7-8
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    7Who is it also of you, that hauing a seruant plowing or feeding cattell, woulde say vnto him by and by, when hee were come from the fielde, Goe, and sit downe at table?

    8And woulde not rather say to him, Dresse wherewith I may suppe, and girde thy selfe, and serue mee, till I haue eaten and drunken, and afterward eate thou, and drinke thou?

  • Eph 6:7-8
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    7With good will, seruing the Lord, and not men.

    8And knowe ye that whatsoeuer good thing any man doeth, that same shall he receiue of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

  • 1 Cor 7:32
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    32And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22But now being freed from sinne, and made seruants vnto God, ye haue your fruit in holines, and the end, euerlasting life.

  • Job 3:19
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    19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

  • Lev 25:39
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    39If thy brother also that dwelleth by thee, be impouerished, and be sold vnto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serue as a bond seruant,

  • Luke 22:26-27
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    26But yee shall not be so: but let the greatest among you be as the least: and the chiefest as he that serueth.

    27For who is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at table? And I am among you as he that serueth.

  • Gal 4:1
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    1Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing fro a seruant, though he be Lord of all,

  • Eph 6:5
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    5Seruants, be obedient vnto them that are your masters, according to the flesh, with feare & trembling in singlenesse of your hearts as vnto Christ,

  • Exod 21:7
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    7Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shal not goe out as the men seruantes doe.

  • Col 3:22
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    22Seruants, be obedient vnto them that are your masters according to the flesh, in all things, not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but in singlenes of heart, fearing God.

  • Matt 20:27
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    27And whosoeuer will be chiefe among you, let him be your seruant.

  • Matt 23:11
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    11But he that is greatest among you, let him be your seruant.

  • Rom 6:16
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    16Knowe ye not, that to whomsoeuer yee giue your selues as seruats to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse?

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee followe that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

  • Rom 14:4
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    4Who art thou that condemnest another mans seruant? Hee standeth or falleth to his owne master: yea, he shalbe established: for God is able to make him stand.

  • Titus 2:9
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    9Let seruants be subiect to their masters, & please them in al things, not answering again,

  • Col 4:1
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    1Ye masters, doe vnto your seruants, that which is iust, and equall, knowing that ye also haue a master in heauen.

  • Exod 21:26
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    26And if a man smite his seruant in the eie, or his maide in the eye, and hath perished it, hee shall let him goe free for his eye.

  • Gal 3:28
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    28There is neither Iewe nor Grecian: there is neither bonde nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21(7:23) Giue not thine heart also to all ye wordes that men speake, lest thou doe heare thy seruant cursing thee.

  • Deut 15:12
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    12If thy brother an Ebrewe sell himselfe to thee, or an Ebrewesse, and serue thee sixe yeere, euen in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee:

  • Rom 7:3
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    3So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free fro the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.