And whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be slave of all.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

And a slave does not continue in the house forever, but a son continues forever.

As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the saliva, and anointed the man's eyes with the clay.

It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination. She brought her owners much profit by fortune-telling.

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you."

but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it trouble youbut if you can gain your freedom, do so.

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of all the estate;

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave and one by the free woman.

But the son by the slave was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."

So then, brethren, we are not children of the slave, but of the free woman.

gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Here there is no Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free, but Christ is all, and in all.

But women will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-restraint.

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power and love and self-discipline.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

For the overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not fond of sordid gain,

but hospitable, a lover of what is good, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled;

knowing that such a man is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will pay it backnot to mention that you owe me even your own self.

and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness,

Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and every one, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a mark on their right hand or the forehead,

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."