Thematic Bible: Bond, illustrative
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Servants » Bond, illustrative » Of Christ
but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men. Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.
So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said:
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Servants » Bond, illustrative » Of the wicked
Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?
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promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.
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I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
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Servants » Bond, illustrative » Of saints
for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.
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You have been bought and actually paid for; stop becoming slaves to men.
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