No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

A pupil is not better than his teacher, nor a slave better than his master.

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

So the slave threw himself down before him and implored him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you all of it.'

And his master's heart was touched, and he let the slave go and canceled the debt.

But when the slave went out he met a fellow-slave of his who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

Then his master called him in and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I canceled all that debt of yours when you entreated me.

Ought you not to have taken pity on your fellow-slave, as I did on you?'

and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be your slave,

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

"Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful slave whom his master put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.

But if he is a bad slave and says to himself, 'My master is going to stay a long time,'

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come, share your master's enjoyment!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come! share your master's enjoyment.'

His master answered, 'You wicked, idle slave! You knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed?

And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

One of the men with Jesus put out his hand and drew his sword, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut his ear off.

He took him off by himself away from the crowd, and put his fingers in the man's ears, and touched his tongue with saliva.

and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be everybody's slave.

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.

And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

But one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck at the high priest's slave and cut his ear off.

And Mary said, "I am the Lord's slave. Let it be as you say." Then the angel left her.

For he has noticed his slave in her humble station, For from this time all the ages will think me favored!

"Now, Master, you will let your slave go free In peace, as you promised,

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death.

When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life.

For I am myself under the orders of others, and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

And when the messengers went back to the house, they found the slave well.

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.

But if the slave says to himself, 'My master is not coming back for a long time,' and begins to beat the men and women slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know, and will cut him in two, and put him with the unbelievers.

The slave who knows his master's wishes, but does not get ready or act upon them, will be severely punished.

and when the dinner hour came, he sent around his slave, to say to those who were invited, 'Come! for it is now ready!'

So the slave went back, and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and squares of the city, and bring the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame in here!'

And the slave said, 'What you ordered, sir, has been done, and there is still room.'

And the master said to the slave, 'Go out on the roads, and among the hedges, and make them come so that my house may be full.

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

And he said to him, 'Well done, my excellent slave! You have proved trustworthy about a very small amount, you shall be governor of ten towns.'

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?

And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to have them give him a share of the vintage, but the tenants beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and mistreated him and sent him back empty-handed.

But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

And one of them did strike at the high priest's slave and cut his right ear off.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

As he said this he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and he put the clay on the man's eyes,

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it and struck at the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.

and who said through the holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your slave, " 'Why did the heathen rage, And the peoples form vain designs?

Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling.

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

she was told, "The elder will be the younger's slave."

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

But if the one who is not a believer wishes to separate, let the separation take place. In such cases the brother or sister is not a slave; God has called you to live in peace.

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

For it is not myself but Christ Jesus that I am proclaiming as Lord; I am only a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by the free woman.

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.

Yet what does the Scripture say? "Drive the slave-girl and her son away, for the slave-girl's son shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So, brothers, we are children not of a slave but of one who is free.

gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

Let nobody interfere with me after this, for I bear on my body the scars that mark me as a slave of Jesus.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.

but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men.

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,

Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.