Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.

You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.

Bondservants and Masters

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.