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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 7:23 - 7:23
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Ye were bought with a price (timēs ēgorasthēte). See note on 1Co 6:20 for this very phrase, here repeated. Both classes (slaves and freemen) were purchased by the blood of Christ.
Become not bondservants of men (mē ginesthe douloi anthrōpōn). Present middle imperative of ginomai with negative mē. Literally, stop becoming slaves of men. Paul here clearly defines his opposition to human slavery as an institution which comes out so powerfully in the Epistle to Philemon. Those already free from human slavery should not become enslaved.