28 Bible Verses about Servants Of People
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Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.
Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
So it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their destiny will be according to their works.
He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys and use them for his work.
But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him.
“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land. You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.
“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment. They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share an inheritance among brothers.
The one who brings ruin on his household
will inherit the wind,
and a fool will be a slave
to someone whose heart is wise.
Better to be dishonored, yet have a servant,
than to act important but have no food.
people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
I will even pour out My Spirit
on My male and female slaves in those days,
and they will prophesy.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”
Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”
When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.
Immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.
Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.
Household slaves, submit with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.
They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to these people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
Sitting down, He called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.
Furthermore, whom will I serve if not his son? As I served in your father’s presence, I will also serve in yours.”