1 Corinthians 7:23
You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.
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- 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 for you were 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, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
- Matt 23:8-9 : 8 But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. 9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. 10 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. 11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
- Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
- Gal 2:4 : 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in 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 for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
- 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
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- 1 Cor 7:20-223 verses84%
20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
22 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.
- 1 Cor 6:19-202 verses81%
19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
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24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
- Rom 6:16-205 verses75%
16 Don'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?
17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
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.
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23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
- Gal 4:7-82 verses74%
7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
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16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
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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.
- Eph 6:5-95 verses72%
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;
7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;
8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
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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.
- Col 3:22-243 verses72%
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.
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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.
- Matt 23:10-112 verses71%
10 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
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42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
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18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
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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.
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19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
- 1 Tim 6:1-22 verses70%
1 Let 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.
2 Those 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.
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19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
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3 For thus says Yahweh, "You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money."
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28 There 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.
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1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
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21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
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36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
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44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
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39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
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15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
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31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.
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6 But 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.
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11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
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9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
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7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
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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.