and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,

and whoever of you wants to be first must be your slave;

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave.

Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does.

With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes,

on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Now it happened as we went to the place of prayer that a slave-girl met us, possessed by a spirit of ventriloquism, and a source of great profit to her owners by her power of fortune-telling.

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

You were a slave when you were called? Never mind. Of course, if you do find it possible to get free, you had better avail yourself of the opportunity.

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

I do not venture to class myself or to compare myself with certain exalted individuals! They belong to the class of self-praisers; while I limit myself to my own sphere, I compare myself with my own standard,

for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Surely it is written in the Law that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-woman and one by the free-woman;

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

However, what does the scripture say? Put away the slave-woman and her son, for the son of the slave-woman shall not be heir along with the son of the free-woman.

Hence we are children of no slave-woman, my brothers, but of the free-woman,

gentleness, self-control: ??there is no law against those who practise such things.

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

no longer a mere slave but something more than a slave ??a beloved brother; especially dear to me but how much more to you as a man and as a Christian!

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).