1 Corinthians 7:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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)

²³ Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

Common English Bible

²³ You were bought and paid for. Don’t become slaves of people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ 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

²³ 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, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Acts 20:28

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 6:20

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

Galatians 2:4

and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit;

Revelation 5:9

And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,