1 CORINTHIANS 7:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.”
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. — The paradox inverts all value: the enslaved believer is apelutheros kyriou (the Lord's freedperson), possessing the ultimate freedom. The free person becomes doulos Christou (enslaved to Christ), accepting chosen servitude to a liberating master. This theological inversion establishes that temporal status is subordinate to one's relation to Christ. Both freedom and slavery are relativized before the absolute claim of Christ.
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