Freeing A Slave

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. — read the full passage →

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.

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. — read the full passage →

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

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, — read the full passage →

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 →

You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. — read the full passage →

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — 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.

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. — read the full passage →

“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. — read the full passage →

“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

“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,

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies 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 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 →

“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. — 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,

Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks. — read the full passage →