Lexicon :: Strong's G1401 - doulos

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ:

To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad.[fn]

Greetings.

Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves.

Simeon[fn] Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ:

To those who have received a faith equal to ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James:

To those who are the called, loved[fn] by God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.

The revelation of[fn] Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

“But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

“Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

“but in the days when the seventh angel will blow his trumpet, then the mystery of God will be completed, as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

The nations were angry,

but your wrath has come.

The time has come

for the dead to be judged

and to give the reward

to your servants the prophets,

to the saints, and to those who fear your name,

both small and great,

and the time has come to destroy

those who destroy the earth.

And it makes everyone ​— ​small and great, rich and poor, free and slave ​— ​to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,

They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are your works,

Lord God, the Almighty;

just and true are your ways,

King of the nations.[fn]

because his judgments are true[fn] and righteous,

because he has judged the notorious prostitute

who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;

and he has avenged the blood of his servants

that was on her hands.

and there will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him.