Leviticus 25:43

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You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
  • Exod 1:13-14 : 13 and they made the Israelites serve rigorously. 14 They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
  • Lev 25:17 : 17 No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.
  • Lev 25:53 : 53 He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Deut 25:18 : 18 how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 They lament,‘Why don’t you notice when we fast? Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’ Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.
  • Exod 1:17 : 17 But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.
  • Exod 2:23 : 23 The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Exod 3:9 : 9 And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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    17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 25:42
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    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

  • Lev 25:44-46
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    44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

    45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

  • Lev 25:53
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    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

  • Lev 25:36-40
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    36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

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

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

  • Deut 23:15-16
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    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

    16Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

  • Deut 24:14
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    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • Exod 22:28
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    28“You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

  • Exod 22:25
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    25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Deut 15:14-15
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    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

    15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

  • Lev 25:14
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    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

  • Lev 25:55
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    55because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35-36
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    72%

    35The LORD made a covenant with them and instructed them,“You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

    36Instead you must worship the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

  • Exod 22:21-22
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    72%

    21“You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

  • Lev 19:33
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    33When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

  • Lev 19:14-15
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    14You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. You must fear your God; I am the LORD.

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  • Deut 24:22
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    22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.

  • Deut 24:18
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    18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

  • Deut 7:18
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    18you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

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    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

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  • Lev 26:13
    71%

    13I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

  • 2 Kgs 17:39
    71%

    39Instead you must worship the LORD your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”

  • Exod 23:32-33
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    32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

    33They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

  • Col 3:22
    71%

    22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in every respect, not only when they are watching– like those who are strictly people-pleasers– but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

  • Exod 21:2
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    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

  • Deut 10:20
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    20Revere the LORD your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name.

  • Ps 81:9
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    9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

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    3The God of Israel spoke, the protector of Israel spoke to me. The one who rules fairly among men, the one who rules in the fear of God,

  • Exod 20:10
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    10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

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    9“You must not oppress a resident foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

  • Exod 1:13
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    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

  • Deut 6:13
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    13You must revere the LORD your God, serve him, and take oaths using only his name.

  • Eph 6:9
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    9Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

  • Deut 15:18
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    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.