Freeing A Slave

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

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

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

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

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

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; — read the full passage →

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;