1 Corinthians 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of humans.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for by Christ]; then do not yield yourselves up to become [in your own estimation] slaves to men [but consider yourselves slaves to Christ].

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

Common English Bible

You were bought and paid for. Don’t become slaves of people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You have been bought with a price. Do not be willing to become the servants of men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

You are bought with a price; be not made the bondslaves of men.

1 Corinthians 7:23 Cross References

Leviticus 25:42

For they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

1 Corinthians 6:20

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

Galatians 2:4

But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;