Cleanse away the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, as you are free from leaven; for Christ has truly become our Passover.

Have you been called being a slave? let it not be a care to you: but if indeed you are able to become free, use it in preference.

For the one having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ.

I wish you to be free from solicitude. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, in order that he may please the Lord:

A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen the Lord Jesus? are you not my work in the Lord?

Then what is my reward? that preaching the gospel, I may render the gospel free from charge, in order that I may not use my right in the gospel.

For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more.