1 Corinthians 7:22 Cross References - BBE

²² For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

⁷⁴ That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship, ⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

³² And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free. ³³ They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free? ³⁴ And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin. ³⁵ Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does. ³⁶ If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

¹⁸ And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. ²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. ²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

¹⁹ For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

¹⁰ Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

¹ Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

¹³ Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

⁵ Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ; ⁶ Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

²² Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord: ²³ Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men; ²⁴ Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

¹⁶ No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother, very dear to me specially, but much more to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord.

¹⁶ As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹ Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ: