Freeing A Slave

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use <FI>it<Fi> rather;

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, — read the full passage →

no more as a servant, but above a servant--a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, — read the full passage →

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,