Freeing A Slave

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an 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, 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.

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. — read the full passage →

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

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, — read the full passage →

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 →

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. — read the full passage →

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

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; 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 be surely 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 maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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,

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

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

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 →

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

And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: — read the full passage →