Slave

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

`And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, — read the full passage →

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

`And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast <FI>are<Fi> of the nations who <FI>are<Fi> round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid, — read the full passage →

`And these <FI>are<Fi> the judgments which thou dost set before them: — read the full passage →

no more as a servant, but above a servant--a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

`And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand--he is certainly avenged; — read the full passage →

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use <FI>it<Fi> rather;

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

`And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye; — read the full passage →

`When thou buyest a Hebrew servant--six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of; — read the full passage →

And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit--to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God--

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; — read the full passage →

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the borrower to the lender.

He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich--only to want.

`When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

`Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

`Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord; — read the full passage →

but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, `Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them; — read the full passage →

Is not this the fast that I chose--To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in mount Sinai, saying, — read the full passage →

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; — read the full passage →

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

for he who <FI>is<Fi> in the Lord--having been called a servant--is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use <FI>it<Fi> rather; — read the full passage →

For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, <FI>so<Fi> also we shall be of the rising again; — read the full passage →

`A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

`If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

`And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand--he is certainly avenged;

`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants; — read the full passage →

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; — read the full passage →

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — read the full passage →

`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

`And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast <FI>are<Fi> of the nations who <FI>are<Fi> round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil-- — read the full passage →

`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years--then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.

thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

`And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons--I do not go out free; — read the full passage →

`When thou buyest a Hebrew servant--six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross; — read the full passage →

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be! — read the full passage →

let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

`And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, — read the full passage →

And when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum; — read the full passage →

but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant; — read the full passage →

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, — read the full passage →

At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear.

to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant--the Hebrew and the Hebrewess--free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother;

Seeing--Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah.

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish. — read the full passage →

And I, in Thy kindness I have trusted, Rejoice doth my heart in Thy salvation. — read the full passage →

`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity, — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee--because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because <FI>it is<Fi> good for him with thee--

`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years--then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee. — read the full passage →

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him; — read the full passage →

if the sun hath risen upon him, blood <FI>is<Fi> for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft;

`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

and saith: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness, — read the full passage →

`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years, — read the full passage →

And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing--a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him.

For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,