Freeing A Slave

If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. — read the full passage →

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.

And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. — read the full passage →

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

When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, — read the full passage →

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 →

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee:

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. — read the full passage →

Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. — 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.

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. — read the full passage →

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished. — read the full passage →

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

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,

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, Andhe that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

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 →

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you. — 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;

And levy a tribute unto Jehovah of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks: — read the full passage →