1 CORINTHIANS 7:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.”
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings. — The redemption language recurs (ēgorasthē = you were bought at cost), connecting to 6:20. The prohibition 'do not become slaves of men' (mē ginesthe douloi anthrōpōn) forbids selling oneself into bondage for any cause—social advancement, wealth, security. The believer's slavery is exclusively to Christ; no human claim supersedes that ownership.
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