Were you called being a bondservant? Do not let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is wearing away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.

When I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, how can you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

"We, being Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word without fear.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;

For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Now faith is being confident of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

They were stoned. They were sawed apart. They were killed with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated

But he who looks into the perfect Law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

For all kinds of animals, and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved by means of water.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: "He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.