Thematic Bible: Duty of, toward servants
Thematic Bible
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to rule over them with rigor
Thou shalt not do violence unto a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to keep back their wages
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him. Do not detain the wages of the work of the hired man in thy house until the morning.
In his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor and with it sustains his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To deal with them in the fear of God
Masters, do that which is just and right with your slaves, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
And, ye masters, do the same unto them, forbearing threats, knowing that their Master and yours is also in the heavens and that he is no respecter of persons.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To act justly
Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To esteem them highly, if saints
not now as a slave, but above a slave, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To forbear threatening them
And, ye masters, do the same unto them, forbearing threats, knowing that their Master and yours is also in the heavens and that he is no respecter of persons.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to defraud them
And your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To take care of them in sickness
And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and free his slave.