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Galatians 3:28
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Core Bible text for equality in Christ
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Core Bible text for one status in Christ
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Core freedom passage in Galatians
For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Direct slave/free reversal in the Lord
That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Direct fellowheirs and same body passage
Supporting Passages
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Same unity theme, but weaker than Galatians 3:28 and Colossians 3:11
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Body-of-Christ unity passage
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Another body-of-Christ passage supporting shared status
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Shows the change from slave to heir in Christ
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Another freedom-from-sin passage linked to liberation
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
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But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
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For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
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I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
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Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
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We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
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Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
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