To make someone become a slave and force them to obey.
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God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
All Scripture References (10)
Acts (1)
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Romans (2)
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
1 Corinthians (2)
But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
2 Corinthians (1)
In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
Galatians (2)
This 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.
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
Titus (1)
Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
2 Peter (1)
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.