And if it seeme euill vnto you to serue the Lord, choose you this day whome you will serue, whether the gods which your fathers serued that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose lande ye dwell: but as for mee and my house, we will serue the Lord.
Joshua 24
All sets one free (will of choice)...serue/serve/slave implies ones choice to ignore that for another master.