Racism And Slavery

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.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever, — 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.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. — read the full passage →

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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

“‘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 a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

For there is no partiality with God.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. — read the full passage →

but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; — read the full passage →

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. — read the full passage →

If anyone has an ear, let him hear. — read the full passage →

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

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. — read the full passage →

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go out. — read the full passage →

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. — read the full passage →

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, — read the full passage →

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

“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,

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. — read the full passage →

“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, — read the full passage →

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. — read the full passage →

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, — read the full passage →

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. — read the full passage →

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

“In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. — read the full passage →

behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; — read the full passage →

Yet you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. — read the full passage →

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place. — read the full passage →

House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. — read the full passage →

who say, Stand by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both. — read the full passage →

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard. — read the full passage →

“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. — read the full passage →

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.” — read the full passage →

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. — read the full passage →

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. — read the full passage →

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →