"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

saying, "Lord, my slave at home is lying ill with paralysis, in terrible agony."

"Lord, "said the captain in reply, "I am not worthy to have you under my roof, but speak the word only, and my slave will be cured,

"For I myself also am a man under authority, and I have soldiers under me. To one man I say 'Go,' and he goes; to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."

Then Jesus said to the captain. "Go! As you have believed, so be it unto you." And his slave was healed in that very hour.

"A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters.

"It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.

"Thereupon his slave threw himself on his knees before him, crying, "'Have patience with me, and I will pay you all!'

"So then the master pitied his slave, and let him go, and forgave him his debt.

"But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "'Pay me what you owe me!'

"Then his fellow slave fell at his feet, and besought him, saying, "'Be patient with me, and I will pay you.'

"Immediately his master summoned him and said: "'You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you implored me.

"'Ought not you also to have had pity on your fellow slave, just as I had pity on you?'

"and whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be your slave;

"Who, then, is the faithful and prudent slave, to whom his master has entrusted his household, to give them their food in due season?

Blessed is that slave whom his Master, when he comes, shall find so doing.

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

"'Well done, good and faithful slave,' replied his master; 'You have been faithful over many things. Enter into your master's joy.'

"'Well done, good and faithful slave,' his master replied, 'You have been faithful over many things; enter into your master's joy.'

"'You wicked and lazy slave,' said his master. 'You say you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not scattered?'

But cast out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'

And, behold, one of these who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and smote the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva;

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

and whoever among you would be first, shall be slave of all,

At vintage-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers to collect some of the proceeds of the vineyard;

Then he sent another slave to them; and this man they knocked over the head and handled shamefully.

But one of the bystanders drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Then Mary said: "Behold I am Lord's slave. Let it be to me as you have said." Then the angel departed from her.

"For he has regarded the humiliation of his slave, And from this hour all ages will count me blessed.

"Now lettest thou thy slave depart, O Master; according to thy word in peace,

Here the slave of a certain Roman captain, a man dear to his master, was ill, and at the point of death.

So when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to ask him to come and save his slave.

"For I also am a man obedient to authority, and have soldiers under me. And I say to one 'come,' and he comes, and to my slave 'do this or that,' and he does it."

And those who had been sent, on returning to the house, found the slave well.

And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

"Blessed is that slave whom his master on his coming shall find so doing.

"But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

"that slave's master will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour when he knows not, and will surely scourge him, and appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.

"The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes,

"At dinnertime he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'

"So the slave came and presented all these answers to his master. Then the master of the house was indignant, and said to his slave. 'Go out, quickly, into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the blind, the lame.'

"And the slave said, 'My master, your orders have been carried out, but yet there is room.'

"Said the master to his slave. 'Go out into the roads and the hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

"No one can be a household servants to two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon."

"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, 'Come at once, sit down to dinner,'

"Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded?

"And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.

"At harvest-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers, to ask them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dresser beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

"Then he sent another slave; and him also they flogged and handled shamefully and sent him away empty-handed.

"But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave

"Now the slave does not remain permanently in the household, but the son does remain.

In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.

(The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain slave girl met us, who had a spirit of divination, and who brought her masters great gain by fortune-telling.

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake.

I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

But when Cephas came to Antioch I resisted him to his face, because he stood self-condemned.

So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

but now that the Faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor-slave.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

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

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave's son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation;