Sentences with word «bondservant»

To be a slave or bondservant of Christ is meant to imply one's gratefulness and sense of debt to Christ for bing set free.

A second element of these debt amnesties was to liberate bondservants — the debtor's wife, daughters or sons who had been pledged to creditors.

Revelation 1:1, Jude 1:1, 2 Peter 1:1, James 1:1, Titus 1:1, Philippians 1:1 Paul, James, Peter, Jude, and John and Timothy all called themselves slaves or more accurately bondservants.

Christians are even compared to slaves of christ (most translations use the word bondservant.)

Art is losing its «purposeful purposelessness» and is becoming a bondservant to «some more general system of social, political, and moral values.»

Further, Islam claims that Ishmael, the son of Sarai's bondservant, is the heir of promise (Genesis 16).

In showing us who God truly is, and what God is truly like, Jesus made Himself of no reputation, took the form of a bondservant, came in the likeness of men, humbled Himself completely, and finally, ultimately, especially suffered a cruel and torturous death on the cross.

James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I once heard a sermon somewhere else where the guy was talking about Philippians I think, and he stopped to explain the first line, which is something along the lines of «Paul, a bondservant (slave!)

However, we could be bondservants to many things including sin...

In this case, Paul is referring to himself as a bondservant to Christ as opposed to one of the world, because God has done so much for Him and been gracious to Him... In other words, God has been a fair master.

Except the slavery Paul is talking about in regards to our relationship with Christ is one of a bondservant.

He is not abusive, rude, or mistreats those who desire to be bondservants.

The religious use of biblical language about masters and servants and slaves and redemption and bought with a price and bondservant and lord and service and unquestioning obedience, etcetera, all come from an age when slavery was an assumed, acceptable and even enviable way of life.

It presents an eloquent and persuasive plea for the welcome not only of a slave but of an «unprofitable» slave, as now converted to Christ and therefore to be regarded and treated «no longer as a bondservant, but more than a bondservant, a brother beloved.»

Israelites could sell themselves as a slave / bondservant to have their debts covered, make a wage, have housing and be set free after six years.

Foreigners could sell themselves as a slave / bondservant as well.

A slave / bondservant was acquired when a person voluntarily entered into it when he needed to pay off his debts.

Slaves under Mosaic Law were different from the harshly treated slaves of other societies, more like servants or bondservants.