97 Bible Verses about Slavery (KJV)

Here are 97 Bible verses about slavery, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Galatians 3:28 KJV

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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Galatians 5:1 KJV

¹Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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Colossians 4:1 KJV

¹Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

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Exodus 21:16 KJV

¹⁶And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

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Titus 2:9-10 KJV

⁹Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; ¹⁰Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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Ephesians 6:5 KJV

⁵Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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Leviticus 25:44-46 KJV

⁴⁴Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. ⁴⁵Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶And ye shall take them as an …

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Luke 4:18 KJV

¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

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Exodus 21:20-21 KJV

²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. ²¹Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

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1 Peter 2:16 KJV

¹⁶As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

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1 Peter 2:18 KJV

¹⁸Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

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Philemon 1:16 KJV

¹⁶Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

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Exodus 21:26-27 KJV

²⁶And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. ²⁷And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

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Ephesians 6:9 KJV

⁹And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

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Deuteronomy 23:15 KJV

¹⁵Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

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Exodus 21:1-36 KJV

¹Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. ²If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or …

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Exodus 21:2 KJV

²If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

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Deuteronomy 24:7 KJV

⁷If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

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1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV

¹³For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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John 8:34 KJV

³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

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Deuteronomy 5:15 KJV

¹⁵And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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1 Timothy 6:1 KJV

¹Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

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Romans 6:22 KJV

²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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Romans 8:15 KJV

¹⁵For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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Proverbs 22:7 KJV

⁷The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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John 8:36 KJV

³⁶If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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1 Timothy 1:10 KJV

¹⁰For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

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Proverbs 12:24 KJV

²⁴The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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1 Timothy 6:1-2 KJV

¹Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. ²And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

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Isaiah 58:6 KJV

⁶Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

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Colossians 3:22 KJV

²²Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

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Exodus 21:20 KJV

²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

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Proverbs 22:16 KJV

¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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Romans 6:5-6 KJV

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

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1 Corinthians 7:21 KJV

²¹Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

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Ephesians 6:5-9 KJV

⁵Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; ⁶Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; ⁷With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: ⁸Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man …

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Exodus 21:2-6 KJV

²If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. …

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Exodus 21:7 KJV

⁷And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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Leviticus 25:39 KJV

³⁹And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

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Luke 12:47-48 KJV

⁴⁷And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. ⁴⁸But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

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Leviticus 25:44 KJV

⁴⁴Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

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Exodus 21:7-11 KJV

⁷And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. ⁸If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. …

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Matthew 20:26-27 KJV

²⁶But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; ²⁷And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

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Romans 1:1 KJV

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

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Exodus 21:32 KJV

³²If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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Deuteronomy 15:12-18 KJV

¹²And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. ¹³And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: ¹⁴Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed …

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Deuteronomy 23:15-16 KJV

¹⁵Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: ¹⁶He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

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1 Corinthians 7:21-23 KJV

²¹Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. ²²For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant. ²³Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

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Deuteronomy 15:12 KJV

¹²And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

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Ephesians 6:5-8 KJV

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Leviticus 25:43 KJV

⁴³Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

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Ephesians 6:6 KJV

⁶Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

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Titus 2:9 KJV

⁹Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

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Leviticus 25:1-55 KJV

¹And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord. ³Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; ⁴But in the seventh year shall be a …

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Exodus 22:3 KJV

³If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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Genesis 1:27 KJV

²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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1 Timothy 1:9-10 KJV

⁹Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, ¹⁰For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

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Acts 17:26 KJV

²⁶And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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Genesis 9:25 KJV

²⁵And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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Deuteronomy 15:12-15 KJV

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Romans 6:2 KJV

²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

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Leviticus 19:20 KJV

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Exodus 21:8 KJV

⁸If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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Exodus 21:12 KJV

¹²He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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Deuteronomy 21:10-14 KJV

¹⁰When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, ¹¹And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; ¹²Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; …

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Exodus 21:1 KJV

¹Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

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Exodus 21:18-21 KJV

¹⁸And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: ¹⁹If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. ²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be …

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Luke 16:13 KJV

¹³No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Exodus 21:4 KJV

⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

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Leviticus 25:46 KJV

⁴⁶And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

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Colossians 3:11 KJV

¹¹Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

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Leviticus 25:53 KJV

⁵³And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

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Galatians 3:28-29 KJV

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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Deuteronomy 20:14 KJV

¹⁴But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

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Leviticus 19:20-22 KJV

²⁰And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. ²¹And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering. ²²And the priest shall make an …

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Exodus 20:10 KJV

¹⁰But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

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Genesis 15:13-14 KJV

¹³And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; ¹⁴And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

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Proverbs 22:2 KJV

²The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

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Matthew 6:24 KJV

²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Exodus 21:6 KJV

⁶Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

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Jeremiah 34:14 KJV

¹⁴At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

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Leviticus 19:33-34 KJV

³³And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. ³⁴But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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Colossians 3:22-24 KJV

²²Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; ²³And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; ²⁴Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

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Matthew 10:24 KJV

²⁴The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

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Deuteronomy 15:16-17 KJV

¹⁶And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; ¹⁷Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

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Luke 12:43-48 KJV

⁴³Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. ⁴⁴Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. ⁴⁵But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶The lord of that servant will come in a …

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Matthew 25:46 KJV

⁴⁶And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

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Exodus 22:2-3 KJV

²If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. ³If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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Exodus 21:11 KJV

¹¹And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

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Jeremiah 34:9 KJV

⁹That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

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Isaiah 58:2 KJV

²Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

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Leviticus 25:38-46 KJV

³⁸I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. ³⁹And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: ⁴⁰But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile. …

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Exodus 21:1-4 KJV

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Proverbs 30:10 KJV

¹⁰Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

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Exodus 20:1-26 KJV

¹And God spake all these words, saying, ²I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁴Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. …

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Romans 1:30 KJV

³⁰Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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