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Live Your Calling

1 Corinthians 7:23

In 9 translations

BSB
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
KJV
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
WEB
You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
ASV
Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
LSV
you were bought with a price, do not become servants of men;
YLT
with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;
DBY
Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men.
DRC
You are bought with a price; be not made the bondslaves of men.
GNV
Yee are bought with a price: be not the seruants of men.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Spelling of γίνεσθε: Tyndale House: γείνεσθε.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
τιμῆς ἠγοράσθητε· μὴ γίνεσθε δοῦλοι ἀνθρώπων.
RP2018
Τιμῆς ἠγοράσθητε· μὴ γίνεσθε δοῦλοι ἀνθρώπων.
TR-Boyd
Τιμῆς ἠγοράσθητε· μὴ γίνεσθε δοῦλοι ἀνθρώπων.
SCR1894
τιμης ηγορασθητε μη γινεσθε δουλοι ανθρωπων

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 6:20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • 1 Peter 1:18–19For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without…
  • Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
  • Leviticus 25:42Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
  • Revelation 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
  • 1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
  • Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
  • Galatians 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
  • Matthew 23:8–11But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors,…

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