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and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—
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and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.
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They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
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Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
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Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’
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“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
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Paul and Silas in Prison
Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
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Slaves to Righteousness
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
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Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
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I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
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When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
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We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
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Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
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Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so.
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For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
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You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings.
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Paul’s Use of His Freedom
Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
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No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
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For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
