| James Duncan - Slavery - 1840 - 150 pages
...Art them called, being a servant, care not for it ; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather ; he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free man." The word here translated servant, is doulos, which signifies either a slave or an hired... | |
| Albert Barnes - Bible - 1841 - 372 pages
...privilege if you can, and be a freeman. There are disadvantages attending the condition of a slave, and 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a. servant, is" the Lord's * freeman ; likewise a Jno.8.36. Kom.6.18,22. l made/ree. also he that is called, being free, is * Christ's servant. 23... | |
| Christian Ludwig Couard - Christian life - 1841 - 334 pages
...liberty is nothing. " Let every man continue in the calling whereuuto he is called," taught St Paul. " He that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman." The servant was to make a situation of liberty out of his service, while with a free spirit and heart... | |
| Church work with youth - 1920 - 834 pages
...:8-10. Parallel Partages — James 1 :25, IJ Cor. 3:17, Gal. G:13; 6:1. Memory Passage ~— I Cor. 7 :22 : For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant (slave) , is the Lord's freeman : likewise he also that is called, being free, is Christ's servant... | |
| Robert E. Picirilli - Religion - 1987 - 454 pages
...slaves and freemen (w. 21-23) 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called...Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Paul now applies the same principle to the circumstances of slaves and freemen.... | |
| Alfred Marshall - Bibles - 1992 - 834 pages
...called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made tree, use // rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being...Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man. wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 25... | |
| Gerd Tellenbach - History - 1993 - 428 pages
...Tellenbach. 'Irdischer Stand', 1-16. everyone should 'abide in the same calling wherein he was called'; 'for he that is called in the Lord, being a servant,...he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant' (1 Corinthians 7: 2off.). These words were used to justify slavery, unfreedom, and every kind of social... | |
| George Ricker Berry - Bibles - 1993 - 834 pages
...care not for it: but if thou mnyest be made frite, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in i he Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, i> Christ's servant. 2JYe are bought with а price ; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let... | |
| Charles Hodge - Religion - 1994 - 400 pages
...conflict with this view of the passage, which our translators evidently adopted, has already been shown. 22. For he that is called in the Lord, (being) a servant,...that is called, (being) free, is Christ's servant. The connection is with the first, not with the last clause of v. 21. 'Care not for your bondage, /or,'... | |
| Joseph Frank - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 544 pages
...man "according to Saint Paul." Here Dostoevsky is referring to the passage in i Corinthians (7:22): "For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant,...that is called, being free, is Christ's servant." When the Orthodox priest falters, the Old Believer springs to his defense and turns out to be the most... | |
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