​For ye are bought with a price:
   therefore glorify God in your body,
   and in your spirit, which are God's.
       
          ― 1 Corinthians 6:20
 
   Sixteen tons, what do you get?
   Another day older
   and deeper in debt;
   St. Peter, don't you call me
   'cause I can't go:
   I owe my soul
   to the company store.

          ― Sixteen Tons (1947)

How much do I owe
God?  for my body
breath
   spirit     +     mind
 
How much to call it
even?      to settle
up
   
    this debt
weighs        on me
 
Hear me
a debt one cannot repay    ever
   across all generations of time
   and throughout all eternity
is not simply a debt

it is . . .         . . . indenturetude

   ***
 
My child,
you misunderstand―
 
   I hold no receipts;
   I repaid them every one
   I hold no debt;
   I canceled it jubilantly
   I hold no expectations;
   I fulfilled them all
   
each  jot and tittle
thorn       and lash
every      drop of blood
I hold
   
   nothing to your account
   but            my love
                     freely given