Galatians 5:13
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13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. (A)Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love (B)serve one another.
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1 Peter 2:16
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16 (A)Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but (B)living as servants[a] of God.
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- 1 Peter 2:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
1 Corinthians 9:19
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19 For (A)though I am free from all, (B)I have made myself a servant to all, that I might (C)win more of them.
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1 Corinthians 8:9
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9 But take care (A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block (B)to the weak.
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Romans 15:1-2
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The Example of Christ
15 (A)We who are strong (B)have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 (C)Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
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Galatians 5:14
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14 For (A)the whole law is fulfilled in one word: (B)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Ephesians 5:21
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21 (A)submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Romans 6:18-22
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18 and, (A)having been set free from sin, (B)have become slaves of righteousness. 19 (C)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For (D)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members (E)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20 (F)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 (G)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things (H)of which you are now ashamed? (I)For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you (J)have been set free from sin and (K)have become slaves of God, (L)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and (M)its end, eternal life.
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Galatians 6:2
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2 (A)Bear one another's burdens, and (B)so fulfill (C)the law of Christ.
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Galatians 4:5-7
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5 (A)to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive (B)adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent (C)the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then (D)an heir through God.
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1 John 3:16-19
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16 By this we know love, that (A)he laid down his life for us, and (B)we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But (C)if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet (D)closes his heart against him, (E)how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not (F)love in word or talk but in deed and (G)in truth.
19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
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Isaiah 61:1
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The Year of the Lord's Favor
61 (A)The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has (B)anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;[a]
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and (C)the opening of the prison to those who are bound;[b]
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- Isaiah 61:1 Or afflicted
- Isaiah 61:1 Or the opening [of the eyes] to those who are blind; Septuagint and recovery of sight to the blind
James 2:15-17
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15 (A)If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 (B)and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good[a] is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
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- James 2:16 Or benefit
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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4 (A)Love is patient and (B)kind; love (C)does not envy or boast; it (D)is not arrogant 5 or rude. It (E)does not insist on its own way; it (F)is not irritable or resentful;[a] 6 it (G)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but (H)rejoices with the truth. 7 (I)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, (J)endures all things.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing
2 Peter 2:19
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19 They promise them (A)freedom, (B)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
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- 2 Peter 2:19 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
2 Corinthians 4:5
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5 For what (A)we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with (B)ourselves as your servants[a] for Jesus' sake.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:5 Or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)
Jude 10-12
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10 (A)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in (B)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (C)to Balaam's error and (D)perished in Korah's rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs[a] (E)at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, (F)shepherds feeding themselves; (G)waterless clouds, (H)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, (I)uprooted;
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- Jude 1:12 Or are blemishes
Galatians 5:22
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22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, patience, (C)kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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John 8:32-36
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32 and you will (A)know the truth, and the truth (B)will set you free.” 33 They answered him, (C)“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, (D)everyone who practices sin is a slave[a] to sin. 35 (E)The slave does not remain in the house forever; (F)the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
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Luke 4:18
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Mark 10:43-45
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43 But (A)it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,[a] 44 and whoever would be first among you must be (B)slave[b] of all. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but (C)to serve, and (D)to give his life as a ransom for (E)many.”
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- Mark 10:43 Greek diakonos
- Mark 10:44 Or bondservant, or servant (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)
Galatians 4:22-5:1
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22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, (A)one by a slave woman and (B)one by a free woman. 23 But (C)the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while (D)the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two (E)covenants. (F)One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;[a] she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But (G)the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,
(H)“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
28 Now you,[b] brothers, (I)like Isaac, (J)are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh (K)persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, (L)so also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? (M)“Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but (N)of the free woman.
Christ Has Set Us Free
5 For (O)freedom Christ has (P)set us free; (Q)stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to (R)a yoke of (S)slavery.
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- Galatians 4:25 Some manuscripts For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia
- Galatians 4:28 Some manuscripts we
John 13:14-15
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14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, (A)you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, (B)that you also should do just as I have done to you.
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