Being owned and controlled by another person, with no freedom to make decisions.
Key References
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
All Scripture References (5)
Romans (2)
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Galatians (2)
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
Hebrews (1)
and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.