28 Bible Verses about Servants Of People
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Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.
"You are not to desire your neighbor's house, nor your neighbor's wife, his male or female servant, his ox, his donkey, nor anything else that pertains to your neighbor."
""You are not to desire your neighbor's wife nor crave your neighbor's house, his fields, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, nor anything that pertains to your neighbor.'"
So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds!
He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys to do his work.
though any slave purchased with money may eat it after you have circumcised him.
Don't take advantage of a hired person who is poor and needy, whether he's your fellow citizen or a foreigner who lives in your city. Pay his wages that same day before the sun sets, because he is poor and his livelihood depends on it. Otherwise, he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will incur guilt."
"When a person has sexual relations with a woman servant who is engaged to another man, but she has not been completely redeemed nor has her freedom been granted to her, there is to be an inquiry, but they won't be put to death, since she has not been freed.
A prudent servant will rule in place of a disgraceful son and will share in the inheritance among brothers.
Whoever troubles his household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise.
It's better to be unimportant, yet have a servant, than to pretend to be important, but lack food.
It will be the same for the lay people as for priests, the same for servants as for their masters, for female servants as for their mistresses, for buyers as for sellers, for lenders as for borrowers, and for creditors as for debtors.
In those days I will even pour out my Spirit on my slaves, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.
"A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I'm a father, where is my honor? And if I'm a master, where is my respect?" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. "But you ask, "How have we despised your name?'
When harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his produce.
He immediately called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.
Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? He stands or falls before his own Lord and stand he will, because the Lord makes him stand.
You household servants must submit yourselves to your masters out of respect, not only to those who are kind and fair, but also to those who are unjust.
They advised him, "If today you are a servant, you will serve this people by answering them and speaking kindly to them. Then they will serve you forever."
That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.
Besides, who else should I be serving? Why not the son? The same way I served your father, I'll serve you."
