Thematic Bible: Duty of, toward servants
Thematic Bible
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to rule over them with rigor
"You shall not exploit a hired worker, [who is] needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from [among] your aliens who are in your land [and] in your {towns}.
You shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but you shall revere your God.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to keep back their wages
" 'You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob [him]; a hired worker's wage you shall not {withhold} overnight until morning.
On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down}, because [he is] poor and {his life depends on it}; [do this] so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To deal with them in the fear of God
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To act justly
Did not he [who] made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To esteem them highly, if saints
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To forbear threatening them
And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to defraud them
and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To take care of them in sickness
So [when he] heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come [and] cure his slave.