Leviticus 25:43
Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
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- Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
- Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: 14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
- Lev 25:17 : 17 And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.
- Lev 25:46 : 46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
- Lev 25:53 : 53 And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
- Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.
- Ezek 34:4 : 4 You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.
- Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
- Deut 25:18 : 18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.
- Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
- Isa 58:3 : 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
- Exod 1:17 : 17 But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
- Exod 1:21 : 21 And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.
- Exod 2:23 : 23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
- Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
- Exod 3:9 : 9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
- Exod 5:14 : 14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
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17 And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.
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42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.
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44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.
45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.
46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
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53 And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
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36 Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.
37 Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.
38 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.
39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;
40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;
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15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:
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35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:
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21 Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
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14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.
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18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
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32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
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2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
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20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.
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9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
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6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
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13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
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13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
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18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.