Galatians 5:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Exodus 21:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.

Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

Leviticus 25:44-46 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 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 alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ...

Philemon 1:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful No longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

1 Corinthians 7:21 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

Luke 4:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Exodus 21:26-27 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

Exodus 21:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

1 Timothy 6:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

Romans 1:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

John 8:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Deuteronomy 23:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Romans 6:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

John 8:36 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Deuteronomy 24:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 5:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 23:15-16 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

Mark 10:42-45 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ...

Titus 2:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Colossians 3:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Galatians 3:28-29 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 7:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:21-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

Romans 6:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Matthew 10:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Exodus 21:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 21:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

Exodus 21:7-11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

Deuteronomy 15:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Leviticus 25:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.

Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

Exodus 21:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Exodus 21:2-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 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 alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Revelation 18:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Peter 2:18-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. ...

Hebrews 13:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” ...

Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Ephesians 6:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ...

1 Corinthians 12:1-13:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Romans 6:15-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. ...

Romans 6:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Acts 17:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Luke 16:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

Luke 12:47-48 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Luke 7:1-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...

Luke 4:1-18:43 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ...

Matthew 20:26-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,

Matthew 11:29-30 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Jeremiah 34:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful ‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Jeremiah 34:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful That everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.

Isaiah 58:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

Proverbs 30:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

Proverbs 22:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 12:1-24:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

Deuteronomy 15:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,

Deuteronomy 15:12-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, ...

Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 22:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exodus 21:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

Genesis 9:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Acts 7:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. ‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’

Malachi 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.