Strong's Greek · G1402

G1402 doulóō

δουλόω

bring into (be under) bondage, X given, become (make) servant

When doulóō is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

to enslave (literally or figuratively)

Derivation

from G1401 (δοῦλος);

Appears 8 times in Scripture

Romans 6:18

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

1 Corinthians 9:19

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

Titus 2:3

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

Acts 7:6

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

Galatians 4:3

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

When doulóō is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what doulóō means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Romans 6:18 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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