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.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

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

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

“‘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 →

“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,

“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 →

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

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.

“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 →

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.

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

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

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

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.

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.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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

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

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. — read the full passage →

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

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

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; — 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.

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 →

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. — read the full passage →

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

“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, — read the full passage →

“‘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.

“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 →

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

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 →

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

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.

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 →

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, — read the full passage →

If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers, — read the full passage →

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,

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

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 →

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

“‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

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 →

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. — read the full passage →

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

“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed; — read the full passage →

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

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

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

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. — read the full passage →

but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

“‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. — read the full passage →

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

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 →

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn’t listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

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

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. — read the full passage →

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

It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; — read the full passage →

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

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. — read the full passage →

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

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

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,