Bought at a price

In 1 Corinthians 6:20, 7:23, GNB. We are bought at a price from a slave to unrighteousness to freedom in Christ; Christ pays it with his blood on the cross to set us free for those who believes and accepts him as Lord and Saviour.

1 Corinthians 6:17-20
[17]But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.
[18]Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body.
[19]Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;
[20]he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God’s glory.

1 Corinthians 7:17-29
[17]Each of you should go on living according to the Lord’s gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.
[18]If a circumcised man has accepted God’s call, he should not try to remove the marks of circumcision; if an uncircumcised man has accepted God’s call, he should not get circumcised.
[19]For whether or not a man is circumcised means nothing; what matters is to obey God’s commandments.
[20]Each of you should remain as you were when you accepted God’s call.
[21]Were you a slave when God called you? Well, never mind; but if you have a chance to become free, use it.
[22]For a slave who has been called by the Lord is free for the Lord; in the same way a free person who has been called by Christ is his slave.
[23]God bought you for a price; so do not become slaves of human beings.
[24]My friends, each of you should remain in fellowship with God in the same condition as you were when you were called.
[25]Now, concerning what you wrote about unmarried people: I do not have a command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is worthy of trust.
[26]Considering the present distress, I think it is better for a man to stay as he is.
[27]Have you got a wife? Then don’t try to get rid of her. Are you unmarried? Then don’t look for a wife.
[28]But if you do marry, you haven’t committed a sin; and if an unmarried woman marries, she hasn’t committed a sin. But I would rather spare you the everyday troubles that married people will have.
[29]What I mean, my friends, is this: there is not much time left, and from now on married men should live as though they were not married;

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