1 Corinthians 7:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

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  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Lev 25:42 : 42 `For they `are' My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold `with' the sale of a servant;
  • Matt 23:8-9 : 8 `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren; 9 and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens, 10 nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ. 11 And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

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    20Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

    21a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it' rather;

    22for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

  • 1 Cor 6:19-20
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    19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

    20for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

  • Rom 6:16-20
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    16have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

    17and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

    18and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

    19In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

    20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

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    23and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.

  • Gal 4:7-8
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    7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

    8But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

  • Gal 5:1
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    1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

  • Eph 6:5-9
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    5The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

    6not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

    7with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

    8having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

    9And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

  • Col 3:22-24
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    22The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

    23and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

    24having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

  • Matt 23:10-11
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    10nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.

    11And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

  • Lev 25:42
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    42`For they `are' My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold `with' the sale of a servant;

  • 1 Pet 1:18
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    18having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

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    19liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

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    19for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

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    3For thus said Jehovah: `For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.'

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    28there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

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    1The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

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    21So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

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    36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

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    44and any man's servant, the purchase of money, when thou hast circumcised him -- then he doth eat of it;

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    39`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

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    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

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    31then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

  • Rom 7:6
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    6and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

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    11And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

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    7`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

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    16no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!