1. 1 Corinthians 7

3. 20 Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them. 21 Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so. 22 For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave. 23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings. 1 Corinthians 7

4. John 8 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” 34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

5. Romans 6 6 …we should no longer be slaves to sin… 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

6. 1 Peter 2 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

8. 1 Peter 2 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” 1 Corinthians 7 35 that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord. 1 Timothy 6 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

9. 1 Corinthians 7

11. 29 What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not; 30 those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; 31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away. 32 I would like you to be free from concern… 35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

12. Matt 13 18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

13. 1 John 2 (MSG) 15-17 Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

14. Malachi 1 6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the L ORD Almighty… 8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the L ORD Almighty… 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the L ORD Almighty.

15. 1 Corinthians 7

16. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. 32 I would like you to be free from concern. 35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

17. Philippians 3 5 of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. But… 8 I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

18. 1 Corinthians 7