Leviticus 25:43

Kindness For Poor Brothers

⁴² For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as a slave. ⁴³ You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God. ⁴⁴ Both your male slaves, and your female slaves whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are all around you. You shall buy male slaves and female slaves from them.

Fear of God

Stand in Awe

Rule Over

Colossians 4:1

Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.

Exodus 1:13-14

And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel serve with harshness.

Leviticus 25:17

And you shall not oppress one another. But you shall fear your God. For I am Jehovah your God.

Leviticus 25:46

And you shall take them as an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession; you may lay service on them forever. But you shall not rule over your brothers, the sons of Israel, over one another, with harshness.

Leviticus 25:53

As a yearly hired servant he shall be with him; he shall not rule with harshness in your sight.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.

Ephesians 6:9

And masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven. There is no respect of persons with Him.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved alive the male children.

Exodus 1:21

And it happened, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.

Exodus 2:23

And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 3:7

And Jehovah 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.

Exodus 3:9

And now behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me. And I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 5:14

And the taskmasters of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And they demanded, Why have you not completed your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as you did before?

Deuteronomy 25:18

how he met you by the way and struck those of you who were behind, all the feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary. And he did not fear God.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.