no longer as a slave, ¹  but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking ²  and in the Lord.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave ¹  –

and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave ¹  of all.

He sent a man ahead of them ¹  – Joseph was sold as a servant.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹  we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  everyone who practices ²  sin is a slave ³  of sin.

The slave does not remain in the family ¹  forever, but the son remains forever. ² 

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are ¹  a son, then you are also an heir through God. ² 

“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she ¹  dies as a result of the blow, ²  he will surely be punished. ³ 

“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? ¹  If not, why then is he being carried off?

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

However, if the injured servant ¹  survives one or two days, the owner ²  will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss. ³ 

But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” ¹  of the free woman.

Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this ¹  will be rewarded by the Lord.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant ¹  go free as compensation for the tooth.

Were you called as a slave? ¹  Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave ¹  nor free, there is neither male nor female ²  – for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave ¹  or free, but Christ is all and in all.

Small and great are ¹  there, and the slave is free ²  from his master. ³