Sentences with phrase «yoke of slavery»

1 Timothy 6:1 - 5 (NRSV) Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.

For you will break the yoke of their slavery and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders.

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery (Gal 5:1): Sin is a weakening of liberty, not an expression of human freedom.

Better to have the floodgates of iniquity opened than to have people living with a yoke of slavery, and no grace at all.»

Paul wrote in Galatians 5:1, «It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.»

Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Here is a concrete response to Paul's admonition to the Christians in Galatia: «For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit to a yoke of slavery» (Galatians 5:1).

The law was not the yoke of slavery; it was the yoke which a lover takes upon himself when he dedicates himself in devotion to obey the least command of his beloved.

For those that would put people under the yoke of slavery again (the law), that (castration) might be a fitting punishment.

«For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery» (Gal 5:1)

It seems to me that for people caught in the yoke of slavery, the imagination must have been terribly important.

We see the yoke of slavery represented by twisted manacles of welded steel in the work of Melvin Edwards, progressing to the migration of black people away from the South in the mournful collages of Romare Bearden.

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.