Leviticus 25:43

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

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  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
  • Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, which they made them serve, was with rigor.
  • Lev 25:17 : 17 You shall not oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.
  • Lev 25:53 : 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, refraining from threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty you have ruled them.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Deut 25:18 : 18 How he met you on the way and attacked your rear, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with My people, I have defiled My inheritance and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you have laid your yoke very heavily.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors.
  • Exod 1:17 : 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
  • Exod 2:23 : 23 Now it happened, in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died. The children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows;
  • Exod 3:9 : 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and questioned, Why have you not fulfilled your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?

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    17You shall not oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

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    42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

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    44Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.

    45Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession.

    46And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.

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    53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

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    36Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

    38I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

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    15You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you:

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    28You shall not revile the gods nor curse the ruler of your people.

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    14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

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    55For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

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    21You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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    14You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

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    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

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    18It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.