Freeing A Slave

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. — read the full passage →

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; — read the full passage →

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,