1 Corinthians 7:22 Cross References - Riverside

²² For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman. Just so the free man, when called, is the slave of Christ.

⁷⁴ To grant that we, saved from the hands of our enemies, may serve him Without fear ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

³² and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free." ³³ They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been in slavery to any man. How do you say, 'You will become free'?" ³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, every one who practices sin is the slave of sin. ³⁵ The slave does not stay in the house forever; the Son stays forever. ³⁶ So if the Son frees you, you will be really free.

¹ PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to bear the good news of God,

¹⁸ You were made free from sin and made servants to righteousness. ¹⁹ I am speaking humanly on account of the weakness of your human nature. As you did present your members as servants to impurity and to lawlessness to do lawlessness, so now you have presented your members as servants to righteousness for holy living. ²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit did you have then? Fruit of which you are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death. ²² But now freed from sin and having become servants of God you have your fruit in holy living and its outcome, life eternal.

¹⁹ For though I am free from all I have enslaved myself to all that I may gain the more.

¹⁰ Am I now trying to please men or God? If I were still trying to please men I should not be Christ's servant.

¹ STAND firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ set us free, and do not wear any yoke of slavery.

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh, but in love be servants to one another.

⁵ Slaves, obey those who according to the flesh are your masters, with reverence and awe in singleness of your hearts as to Christ, ⁶ not with eye service as pleasers of men, but as Christ's slaves, doing the will of God in a whole-souled way,

²² Slaves, obey in everything your masters in the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, because you reverence the Lord. ²³ Whatever you do, do it heartily as for the Lord and not for men, ²⁴ for you know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. You are slaves to the Lord Christ.

¹² Epaphras, the servant of Christ Jesus, who is one of you, sends his greetings to you. He always wrestles in prayer on your behalf that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

¹⁶ no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁶ Live as free men, yet not using freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as God's slaves.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been allotted a faith as precious as ours:

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who are in God the Father, beloved, kept for Jesus Christ and called: