Sentences with phrase «bondservant of»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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!)

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

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.

and even more in the merciful law concerning the year of jubilee in the Levitican Code: «And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.

And whoever desires to be first among you must be your bondservant, even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many» (Mat 20:25 - 28).

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