1 Corinthians 7:23
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Context
This verse from 1 Corinthians Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. Paul addresses questions about marriage and celibacy: it is good not to marry but because of sexual immorality each man should have his own wife. The husband and wife should not deprive one another except by mutual consent. To the …
Other Translations
Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;
It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.
Cross References
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold …
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, …
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we …
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, …
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation …
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, …