1 Corinthians 7:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τιμῆς ἠγοράσθητε· μὴ γίνεσθε δοῦλοι ἀνθρώπων.

Transliteration

With a timēs you were ēgorasthēte; mē ginesthe douloi of anthrōpōn.

Grammar Details

• *timēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - price/cost/value
• *ēgorasthēte*: aorist passive indicative, 2nd person plural - you were bought/purchased
• *mē*: negative particle with imperative - not
• *ginesthe*: present middle imperative, 2nd person plural - become/be made
• *douloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - slaves/servants
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of men/people

Word Meanings

• *timēs*: price/cost/value
• *ēgorasthēte*: you were bought/purchased/redeemed
• *ginesthe*: become/be made/turn into
• *douloi*: slaves/servants/bondservants
• *anthrōpōn*: men/people/mankind

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
• Lev 25:42 : 42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
• Matt 23:8-9 : 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;