{Ye were bought with a price} (	im(8873) (8867)orasth(8874)e). See on
泰:20| for this very phrase, here repeated. Both classes (slaves
and freemen) were purchased by the blood of Christ. {Become not
bondservants of men} (m(8820)ginesthe douloi anthr(9370)(936e)). Present
middle imperative of ginomai with negative m(885c). Literally,
stop becoming slaves of men. Paul here clearly defines his
opposition to human slavery as an institution which comes out so
powerfully in the Epistle to Philemon. Those already free from
human slavery should not become enslaved.