For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.