For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Because these are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such a one shall not be sold as a [common] servant.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as [His] own possession, zealous for good works.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb blameless and spotless,

For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; because You were slain, and You redeemed us to God by Your blood, out of every tribe and language and people and nation;

"But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brothers.

Neither be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.

and that was because of false brothers secretly brought in (who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to slavery),