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.