No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

For I, too, am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order this one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave-boy to do this, and he does it."

No pupil is better than his teacher, and no slave is better than his master.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

So the slave fell down at his feet and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you every cent of it.'

And his master's heart was moved with pity, and he let the slave go free with his debt cancelled.

"But that slave went out and found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, demanding, 'Pay me what you owe me!'

"And his fellow-slave fell down before him and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

Ought you not to have shown mercy to your fellow-slave, as I too had done for you?'

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

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

"Who then is the faithful and thoughtful slave, whom his master put in charge of his household, to deal out to the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave if, when his master comes back, he finds him so doing.

But if the slave is bad and says to himself, 'My master is going to be gone a long time,'

the master of that slave will come on the very day he is not expecting him,

His master said to him 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

His master answered him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed.

And throw the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness on the outside, where he will weep and grind his teeth.'

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

So He took him off from the crowd by himself and put His fingers in his ears and touched his tongue with saliva.

Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

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

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect his part of the grape crop.

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

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

Then Mary said, "I am the Lord's slave. May what you say take place with me." Then the angel left her.

for He has smiled upon His slave in her lowly station, for from this day all ages will count me happy!

"Now, Master, you will let your slave go free in peace, as you have promised;

There was a Roman captain who had a slave that was very dear to him, and he 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 bring his slave safe through the illness.

For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

Then the messengers returned to the house and found the slave well.

Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me.

But dedicate once for all your inner self, and at once you will have everything clean.

Happy is that slave whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.

But if that 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 who knows his master's wishes and does not get ready or act upon them will be severely punished.

And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to the invited guests, 'Come, for it is now ready.'

So the slave returned and reported these answers to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor, the maimed, the crippled, and the blind.'

Then the slave said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and still there is room.'

"Then the master said to his slave, 'Go out on the roads and by the hedges and make the people come in, so that my house may be filled.

No house-servant can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

"What man among you, if he has a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your seat at the table,'

Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do?

The Pharisee stood and said this self-centered prayer, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

So he said to him, 'Well done, my good slave! Because you have proven dependable in a very small business, be governor of ten cities!'

He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow.

So at the proper time He sent a slave to the tenants, that they might pay him his part of the grape-crop, but the tenants beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

Then again he sent another slave, and they beat him and insulted him, and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent a third slave, and they wounded him and threw him out of the vineyard.

But ever be on your guard, so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries, and that day, like a trap, catch you unawares.

Then one of them struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

Now a slave does not live permanently in a household, but a son does.

On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,

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

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

Remember what I once told 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 made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

and I made known to them your very self, and I will make you known still further, so that the love which you have shown to me may be felt in them, and I in union with them."

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

And the patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

Once as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had the gift of magical fortune-telling, and continued to make great profits for her owners by fortune-telling.

But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."

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

but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,

for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin.

For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.

Thank God! It has been done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my higher nature I am a slave to the law of God, but in my lower nature, to the law of sin.

she was told, "The elder will be a slave to the younger."

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is good for me. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not become a slave to anything.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they do not practice self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning in the fire of passion.

Were you called while a slave? Stop letting that annoy you. Yet, if you can win your freedom, take advantage of such an opportunity.

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

Yes, indeed, though I am free from any human power, I have made myself a slave to everybody, to win as many as possible.

Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.

But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.

Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

For I am not proclaiming myself but Christ Jesus as Lord, and myself a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

So, since I know what the fear of God can do, I am trying to win men. My inner self is perfectly known to God, and I hope, to your consciences too.

For you listen to a man, if he makes you his slave, or spends your money for his living, or cheats you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.

There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir by God's own act.

Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave girl, the other by a 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 to fulfill the promise.

But what does the Scripture say? "Drive off the slave girl and her son, for the slave girl's son shall never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So, brothers, we are children, not of a slave girl but of a free woman.

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

Let nobody trouble me after this, for I carry on my body the scars that mark me as Jesus' slave.

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.

You slave-owners, too, must maintain the same attitude toward your slaves, and stop threatening them, for you know that their real Lord and yours is in heaven, and that He never shows partiality.