This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

They themselves

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

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

Overcome

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

and they might recover their senses and escape from the devil's trap in which they have been caught by him to do his will.

General references

and say, 'This fellow started to erect a building but could not complete it!'

Remember Lot's wife!