Freeing A Slave

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather.

If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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

Servants, bein subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

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

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. — read the full passage →

no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

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

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,

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

If then ye 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 ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;