1 Corinthians 7:22

World English Bible (2000)

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • Phlm 1:16 : 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
  • Ps 116:16 : 16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." 33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'" 34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
  • Rom 6:18-22 : 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
  • 1 Cor 9:19 : 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • Eph 6:5-6 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Col 3:22-24 : 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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  • 1 Cor 7:20-21
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    20Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

    21Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

  • 1 Cor 7:23-24
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    23You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

    24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

  • Gal 5:1
    75%

    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • Gal 4:7
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    7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • Rom 6:18
    73%

    18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • Exod 21:2
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    2"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

  • 1 Cor 7:17-18
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    17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

    18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

  • Eph 6:7-8
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    7with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

    8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

  • John 8:34-36
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    71%

    34Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

    35A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

    36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • Rom 6:22
    71%

    22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

  • Rom 6:16
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    16Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • Gal 4:31
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    31So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

  • 1 Tim 6:1-2
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    1Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

    2Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

  • Gal 3:28
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    28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • Col 3:22
    70%

    22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  • Eph 6:5
    70%

    5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

  • Rom 6:7
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    7For he who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Ps 116:16
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    16Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

  • Gal 4:1
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    1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

  • Matt 23:10-11
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    10Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

    11But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

  • Lev 25:42
    69%

    42For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

  • Rom 7:6
    69%

    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    69%

    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • Luke 22:26-27
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    26But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

    27For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.

  • Rom 7:2-4
    3 verses
    69%

    2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

    4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • Col 4:1
    68%

    1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

  • Jer 34:9
    68%

    9that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
    68%

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

  • Gal 4:22
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    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

  • Exod 21:5
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    5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

  • Col 3:11
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    11where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Job 3:19
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    19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

  • Col 3:24
    67%

    24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.