Leviticus 25:43

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
  • Exod 1:13-14 : 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
  • Lev 25:17 : 17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 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.
  • Lev 25:53 : 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 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.
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Deut 25:18 : 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "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 didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
  • Exod 2:23 : 23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh 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, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

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    17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

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