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THE WORD ÒSLAVERYÓ IS USED 29 TIMES

 

 

SCRIPTURE

SLAVERY IS JUSTIFIED AND APPROVED

ACKNOWLEDGED, BUT NOT APPROVED


Hebrews 2:15 (NIV) and free those who all their lives were held in SLAVERY by their fear of death.

 

 

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Exodus 2:23 (NIV)

During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their SLAVERY and cried out, and their cry for help because of their SLAVERY went up to God.

 

 

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Exodus 20:2 (NIV)

ÒI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 5:6 (NIV)

ÒI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Galatians 4:3 (NIV)

So also, when we were underage, we were in SLAVERY under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 6:12 (NIV)

be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 8:14 (NIV)

then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 13:10 (NIV)

Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Micah 6:4 (NIV)

I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of SLAVERY. I sent Moses to lead you, also Aaron and Miriam.

 

 

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Galatians 4:25 (NIV)

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in SLAVERY with her children.

 

 

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Galatians 5:1 (NIV)

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of SLAVERY.

 

 

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1 Timothy 6:1 (NIV)

All who are under the yoke of SLAVERY should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that GodÕs name and our teaching may not be slandered.

 

 

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Exodus 13:3 (NIV)

Then Moses said to the people, ÒCommemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.

 

 

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Exodus 13:14 (NIV)

ÒIn days to come, when your son asks you, ÔWhat does this mean?Õ say to him, ÔWith a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Judges 6:8 (NIV)

he sent them a prophet, who said, ÒThis is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY.

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:13 (NIV)

ÒThis is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of SLAVERY. I said,

 

 

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Exodus 21:16 (NIV)

ÒAnyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapperÕs possession.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 7:8 (NIV)

But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of SLAVERY, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 13:5 (NIV)

That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of SLAVERY. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

 

 

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Joshua 24:17 (NIV)

It was the Lord our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of SLAVERY, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.

 

 

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1Nehemiah 5:5 (NIV)

Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to SLAVERY. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.Ó

 

 

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Nehemiah 9:17 (NIV)

They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their SLAVERY. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,

 

 

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Genesis 47:25 (NIV)

ÒYou have saved our lives,Ó they said. ÒMay we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.Ó

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:9 (NIV)

Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.

 

 

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Romans 8:21 (NIV)

that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:10 (NIV)

So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.

 

 

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Ezra 9:8 (NIV)

ÒBut now, for a brief moment, the Lord our God has been gracious in leaving us a remnant and giving us a firm place in his sanctuary, and so our God gives light to our eyes and a little relief in our bondage.

 

 

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Genesis 47:19 (NIV)

Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.Ó

 

 

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Ezra 9:9 (NIV)

Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia: He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

 

 

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SUMMARY: Scripture consistently details God wanted people out of Egypt and out of slavery.

 

 

 

 

 

NEW INTERNATIONAL BIBLE

THE WORD ÒSLAVEÓ IS USED 188 TIMES

 

 

SCRIPTURE

SLAVERY IS JUSTIFIED AND APPROVED

ACKNOWLEDGED, BUT NOT APPROVED

Ecclesiastes 10:7 (NIV)

I have seen SLAVEs on horseback, while princes go on foot like SLAVEs.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:44 (NIV)

Ò ÔYour male and female SLAVEs are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy SLAVEs.

 

 

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2 Peter 2:19 (NIV)

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are SLAVEs of depravity—for Òpeople are SLAVEs to whatever has mastered them.Ó

 

 

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Romans 6:16 (NIV)

DonÕt you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient SLAVEs, you are SLAVEs of the one you obey—whether you are SLAVEs to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

 

 

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Exodus 21:20 (NIV)

ÒAnyone who beats their male or female SLAVE with a rod must be punished if the SLAVE dies as a direct result,

 

 

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Exodus 21:21 (NIV)

but they are not to be punished if the SLAVE recovers after a day or two, since the SLAVE is their property.

 

 

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Exodus 21:26 (NIV)

ÒAn owner who hits a male or female SLAVE in the eye and destroys it must let the SLAVE go free to compensate for the eye.

 

 

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Exodus 21:27 (NIV)

And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female SLAVE must let the SLAVE go free to compensate for the tooth.

 

 

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Leviticus 22:11 (NIV)

But if a priest buys a SLAVE with money, or if SLAVEs are born in his household, they may eat his food.

 

 

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1 Kings 2:39 (NIV)

But three years later, two of ShimeiÕs SLAVEs ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, ÒYour SLAVEs are in Gath.Ó

 

 

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1 Kings 2:40 (NIV)

At this, he saddled his donkey and went to Achish at Gath in search of his SLAVEs. So Shimei went away and brought the SLAVEs back from Gath.

 

 

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Nehemiah 9:36 (NIV)

ÒBut see, we are SLAVEs today, SLAVEs in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.

 

 

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Matthew 20:27 (NIV)

and whoever wants to be first must be your SLAVE—

 

 

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Genesis 9:25 (NIV)

he said, ÒCursed be Canaan! The lowest of SLAVEs will he be to his brothers.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 50:18 (NIV)

His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. ÒWe are your SLAVEs,Ó they said.

 

 

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Exodus 12:44 (NIV)

Any SLAVE you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,

 

 

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Deuteronomy 16:12 (NIV)

Remember that you were SLAVEs in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 23:15 (NIV)

If a SLAVE has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 24:22 (NIV)

Remember that you were SLAVEs in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

 

 

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1 Samuel 8:17 (NIV)

He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his SLAVEs.

 

 

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Ezra 2:65 (NIV)

besides their 7,337 male and female SLAVEs; and they also had 200 male and female singers.

 

 

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Nehemiah 7:67 (NIV)

besides their 7,337 male and female SLAVEs; and they also had 245 male and female singers.

 

 

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Job 3:18 (NIV)

Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the SLAVE driverÕs shout.

 

 

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Job 3:19 (NIV)

The small and the great are there, and the SLAVEs are freed from their owners.

 

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Job 7:2 (NIV)

Like a SLAVE longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

 

 

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Psalms 105:17 (NIV)

and he sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a SLAVE.

 

 

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Proverbs 22:7 (NIV)

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is SLAVE to the lender.

 

 

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Jeremiah 2:14 (NIV)

Is Israel a servant, a SLAVE by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

 

 

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Lamentations 5:8 (NIV)

SLAVEs rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.

 

 

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Mark 10:44 (NIV)

and whoever wants to be first must be SLAVE of all.

 

 

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John 8:34 (NIV)

Jesus replied, ÒVery truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a SLAVE to sin.

 

 

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Romans 6:18 (NIV)

You have been set free from sin and have become SLAVEs to righteousness.

 

 

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Romans 6:20 (NIV)

When you were SLAVEs to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.

 

 

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1 Corinthians 7:23 (NIV)

You were bought at a price; do not become SLAVEs of human beings.

 

 

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Exodus 21:32 (NIV)

If the bull gores a male or female SLAVE, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the SLAVE, and the bull is to be stoned to death.

 

 

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Ecclesiastes 2:7 (NIV)

I bought male and female SLAVEs and had other SLAVEs who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:16 (NIV)

But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male and female SLAVEs you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your SLAVEs again.

 

 

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Romans 6:19 (NIV)

I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as SLAVEs to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as SLAVEs to righteousness leading to holiness.

 

 

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Romans 7:25 (NIV)

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a SLAVE to GodÕs law, but in my sinful nature a SLAVE to the law of sin.

 

 

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1 Corinthians 7:22 (NIV)

For the one who was a SLAVE when called to faith in the Lord is the LordÕs freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is ChristÕs SLAVE.

 

 

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Galatians 4:30 (NIV)

But what does Scripture say? ÒGet rid of the SLAVE woman and her son, for the SLAVE womanÕs son will never share in the inheritance with the free womanÕs son.Ó

 

 

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Philemon 1:16 (NIV)

no longer as a SLAVE, but better than a SLAVE, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.

 

 

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Genesis 9:26 (NIV)

He also said, ÒPraise be to the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the SLAVE of Shem.

 

 

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Genesis 15:14 (NIV)

But I will punish the nation they serve as SLAVEs, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

 

 

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Genesis 16:1 (NIV)

Now Sarai, AbramÕs wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian SLAVE named Hagar;

 

 

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Genesis 21:13 (NIV)

I will make the son of the SLAVE into a nation also, because he is your offspring.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 39:17 (NIV)

Then she told him this story: ÒThat Hebrew SLAVE you brought us came to me to make sport of me.

 

 

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Exodus 5:6 (NIV)

That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the SLAVE drivers and overseers in charge of the people:

 

 

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Exodus 9:20 (NIV)

Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their SLAVEs and their livestock inside.

 

 

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Exodus 9:21 (NIV)

But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their SLAVEs and livestock in the field.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:39 (NIV)

Ò ÔIf any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as SLAVEs.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:42 (NIV)

Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as SLAVEs.

 

 

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Job 41:4 (NIV)

Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your SLAVE for life?

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:11-22 (NIV)

But afterward they changed their minds and took back the SLAVEs they had freed and enSLAVEd them again. 12  So the LORD gave them this message through Jeremiah:
13  ÒThis is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors long ago when I rescued them from their slavery in Egypt.
14  I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years. But your ancestors paid no attention to me.
15  Recently you repented and did what was right, following my command. You freed your slaves and made a solemn covenant with me in the Temple that bears my name.
16  But now you have shrugged off your oath and defiled my name by taking back the men and women you had freed, forcing them to be slaves once again.
17  ÒTherefore, this is what the LORD says: Since you have not obeyed me by setting your countrymen free, I will set you free to be destroyed by war, disease, and famine. You will be an object of horror to all the nations of the earth.
18  Because you have broken the terms of our covenant, I will cut you apart just as you cut apart the calf when you walked between its halves to solemnize your vows.
19  Yes, I will cut you apart, whether you are officials of Judah or Jerusalem, court officials, priests, or common people—for you have broken your oath.
20  I will give you to your enemies, and they will kill you. Your bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.
21  ÒI will hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to the army of the king of Babylon. And although BabylonÕs king has left Jerusalem for a while,
22  I will call the Babylonian armies back again. They will fight against this city and will capture it and burn it down. I will see to it that all the towns of Judah are destroyed, with no one living there.Ó

 

 

 

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John 8:35 (NIV)

Now a SLAVE has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.

 

 

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Acts 7:9 (NIV)

ÒBecause the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a SLAVE into Egypt. But God was with him

 

 

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Romans 7:14 (NIV)

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a SLAVE to sin.

 

 

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Galatians 4:8 (NIV)

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were SLAVEs to those who by nature are not gods.

 

 

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Galatians 4:31 (NIV)

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the SLAVE woman, but of the free woman.

 

 

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Ephesians 6:5 (NIV)

SLAVEs, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

 

 

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1 Peter 2:16 (NIV)

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as GodÕs SLAVEs.

 

 

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Psalms 123:2 (NIV)

As the eyes of SLAVEs look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female SLAVE look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us his mercy.

 

 

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Genesis 9:27 (NIV)

May God extend JaphethÕs territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the SLAVE of Japheth.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 16:3 (NIV)

So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian SLAVE Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

 

 

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Genesis 16:6 (NIV)

ÒYour SLAVE is in your hands,Ó Abram said. ÒDo with her whatever you think best.Ó Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

 

 

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Genesis 16:8 (NIV)

And he said, ÒHagar, SLAVE of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?Ó ÒIÕm running away from my mistress Sarai,Ó she answered.

 

 

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Genesis 20:14 (NIV)

Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female SLAVEs and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.

 

 

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Genesis 20:17 (NIV)

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female SLAVEs so they could have children again,

 

 

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Genesis 21:10 (NIV)

and she said to Abraham, ÒGet rid of that SLAVE woman and her son, for that womanÕs son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 25:12 (NIV)

This is the account of the family line of AbrahamÕs son Ishmael, whom SarahÕs SLAVE, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.

 

 

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Genesis 39:19 (NIV)

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, ÒThis is how your SLAVE treated me,Ó he burned with anger.

 

 

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Genesis 44:9 (NIV)

If any of your servants is found to have it, he will die; and the rest of us will become my lordÕs SLAVEs.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 44:33 (NIV)

ÒNow then, please let your servant remain here as my lordÕs SLAVE in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

 

 

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Exodus 1:11 (NIV)

So they put SLAVE masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

 

 

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Exodus 5:10 (NIV)

Then the SLAVE drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, ÒThis is what Pharaoh says: ÔI will not give you any more straw.

 

 

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Exodus 5:13 (NIV)

The SLAVE drivers kept pressing them, saying, ÒComplete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.Ó

 

 

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Exodus 5:14 (NIV)

And PharaohÕs SLAVE drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, ÒWhy havenÕt you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?Ó

 

 

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Leviticus 25:46 (NIV)

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them SLAVEs for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 6:21 (NIV)

tell him: ÒWe were SLAVEs of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 15:15 (NIV)

Remember that you were SLAVEs in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 24:7 (NIV)

If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a SLAVE, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 24:18 (NIV)

Remember that you were SLAVEs in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 32:36 (NIV)

The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, SLAVE or free.

 

 

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2 Kings 9:8 (NIV)

The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—SLAVE or free.

 

 

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2 Kings 14:26 (NIV)

The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether SLAVE or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them.

 

 

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2 Chronicles 8:9 (NIV)

But Solomon did not make SLAVEs of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers.

 

 

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2 Chronicles 28:10 (NIV)

And now you intend to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem your SLAVEs. But arenÕt you also guilty of sins against the Lord your God?

 

 

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Proverbs 19:10 (NIV)

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a SLAVE to rule over princes!

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:8 (NIV)

The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the SLAVEs.

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:9 (NIV)

Everyone was to free their Hebrew SLAVEs, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.

 

 

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Nahum 2:7 (NIV)

It is decreed that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female SLAVEs moan like doves and beat on their breasts.

 

 

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Zechariah 2:9 (NIV)

I will surely raise my hand against them so that their SLAVEs will plunder them. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

 

 

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John 8:33 (NIV)

They answered him, ÒWe are AbrahamÕs descendants and have never been SLAVEs of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?Ó

 

 

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Acts 7:7 (NIV)

But I will punish the nation they serve as SLAVEs,Õ God said, Ôand afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.Õ

 

 

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1 Corinthians 7:21 (NIV)

Were you a SLAVE when you were called? DonÕt let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so.

 

 

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1 Corinthians 9:19 (NIV)

Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a SLAVE to everyone, to win as many as possible.

 

 

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Galatians 2:4 (NIV)

This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us SLAVEs.

 

 

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Galatians 3:28 (NIV)

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither SLAVE nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

 

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Galatians 4:1 (NIV)

What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a SLAVE, although he owns the whole estate.

 

 

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Galatians 4:7 (NIV)

So you are no longer a SLAVE, but GodÕs child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.

 

 

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Galatians 4:22 (NIV)

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the SLAVE woman and the other by the free woman.

 

 

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Galatians 4:23 (NIV)

His son by the SLAVE woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.

 

 

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Galatians 4:24 (NIV)

These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be SLAVEs: This is Hagar.

 

 

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Ephesians 6:6 (NIV)

Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as SLAVEs of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

 

 

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Ephesians 6:8 (NIV)

because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are SLAVE or free.

 

 

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Colossians 3:11 (NIV)

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, SLAVE or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

 

 

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Colossians 4:1 (NIV)

Masters, provide your SLAVEs with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

 

 

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1 Timothy 1:10 (NIV)

for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for SLAVE traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

 

 

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Titus 2:9 (NIV)

Teach SLAVEs to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

 

 

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1 Peter 2:18 (NIV)

SLAVEs, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

 

 

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Revelation 13:16 (NIV)

It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and SLAVE, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,

 

 

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Genesis 16:2 (NIV)

so she said to Abram, ÒThe Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my SLAVE; perhaps I can build a family through her.Ó Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

 

 

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Genesis 16:5 (NIV)

Then Sarai said to Abram, ÒYou are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my SLAVE in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 21:12 (NIV)

But God said to him, ÒDo not be so distressed about the boy and your SLAVE woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

 

 

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Genesis 44:10 (NIV)

ÒVery well, then,Ó he said, Òlet it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my SLAVE; the rest of you will be free from blame.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 44:17 (NIV)

But Joseph said, ÒFar be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my SLAVE. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.Ó

 

 

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Exodus 2:5 (NIV)

Then PharaohÕs daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female SLAVE to get it.

 

 

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Exodus 3:7 (NIV)

The Lord said, ÒI have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their SLAVE drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

 

 

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Exodus 23:12 (NIV)

ÒSix days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the SLAVE born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.

 

 

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Leviticus 26:13 (NIV)

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be SLAVEs to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

 

 

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Numbers 16:14 (NIV)

Moreover, you havenÕt brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like SLAVEs? No, we will not come!Ó

 

 

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Deuteronomy 5:15 (NIV)

Remember that you were SLAVEs in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 21:14 (NIV)

If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a SLAVE, since you have dishonored her.

 

 

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1 Samuel 30:13 (NIV)

David asked him, ÒWho do you belong to? Where do you come from?Ó He said, ÒI am an Egyptian, the SLAVE of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.

 

 

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2 Samuel 6:22 (NIV)

I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these SLAVE girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.Ó

 

 

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1 Kings 9:21 (NIV)

Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate—to serve as SLAVE labor, as it is to this day.

 

 

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1 Kings 9:22 (NIV)

But Solomon did not make SLAVEs of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.

 

 

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1 Kings 21:21 (NIV)

He says, ÔI am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—SLAVE or free.

 

 

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2 Chronicles 8:8 (NIV)

Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as SLAVE labor, as it is to this day.

 

 

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Esther 7:4 (NIV)

For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female SLAVEs, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.Ó

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:10 (NIV)

So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female SLAVEs and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.

 

 

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Lamentations 1:1 (NIV)

How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a SLAVE.

 

 

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Acts 16:16 (NIV)

Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female SLAVE who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.

 

 

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Romans 6:6 (NIV)

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be SLAVEs to sin—

 

 

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Romans 6:17 (NIV)

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be SLAVEs to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.

 

 

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Romans 6:22 (NIV)

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become SLAVEs of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

 

 

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Romans 8:15 (NIV)

The Spirit you received does not make you SLAVEs, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, ÒAbba, Father.Ó

 

 

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1 Corinthians 9:27 (NIV)

No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my SLAVE so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

 

 

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1 Corinthians 12:13 (NIV)

For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, SLAVE or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

 

 

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Ephesians 6:9 (NIV)

And masters, treat your SLAVEs in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

 

 

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Colossians 3:22 (NIV)

SLAVEs, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.

 

 

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Revelation 6:15 (NIV)

Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both SLAVE and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

 

 

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Revelation 18:13 (NIV)

cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as SLAVEs.

 

 

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Revelation 19:18 (NIV)

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and SLAVE, great and small.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 43:18 (NIV)

Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house. They thought, ÒWe were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as SLAVEs and take our donkeys.Ó

 

 

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Genesis 44:16 (NIV)

ÒWhat can we say to my lord?Ó Judah replied. ÒWhat can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servantsÕ guilt. We are now my lordÕs SLAVEs—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.Ó

 

 

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Exodus 6:6 (NIV)

ÒTherefore, say to the Israelites: ÔI am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being SLAVEs to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

 

 

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Exodus 11:5 (NIV)

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female SLAVE, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

 

 

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Leviticus 19:20 (NIV)

Ò ÔIf a man sleeps with a female SLAVE who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

 

 

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Deuteronomy 28:68 (NIV)

The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female SLAVEs, but no one will buy you.

 

 

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Judges 9:18 (NIV)

But today you have revolted against my fatherÕs family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female SLAVE, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is related to you.

 

 

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2 Samuel 6:20 (NIV)

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, ÒHow the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the SLAVE girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!Ó

 

 

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1 Kings 14:10 (NIV)

Ò ÔBecause of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—SLAVE or free. I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.

 

 

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2 Kings 4:1 (NIV)

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ÒYour servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his SLAVEs.Ó

 

 

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2 Kings 5:26 (NIV)

But Elisha said to him, ÒWas not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female SLAVEs?

 

 

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Ezra 9:9 (NIV)

Though we are SLAVEs, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia: He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

 

 

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Malachi 1:6 (NIV)

ÒA son honors his father, and a SLAVE his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?Ó says the Lord Almighty. ÒIt is you priests who show contempt for my name. ÒBut you ask, ÔHow have we shown contempt for your name?Õ

 

 

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1 Timothy 6:2 (NIV)

Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their SLAVEs. These are the things you are to teach and insist on.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:35 (NIV)

Ò ÔIf any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:36 (NIV)

Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:37 (NIV)

You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:38 (NIV)

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:40 (NIV)

They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:41 (NIV)

Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:43 (NIV)

Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:45 (NIV)

You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:47 (NIV)

Ò ÔIf a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreignerÕs clan,

 

 

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Leviticus 25:48 (NIV)

they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

 

 

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Leviticus 25:49 (NIV)

An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:50 (NIV)

They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:51 (NIV)

If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:52 (NIV)

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:53 (NIV)

They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

 

 

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Leviticus 25:54 (NIV)

Ò ÔEven if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

 

 

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Leviticus 25:55 (NIV)

for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

 

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Jeremiah 34:18 (NIV)

Those who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:19 (NIV)

The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf,

 

 

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Jeremiah 34:20 (NIV)

I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.

 

 

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Philemon 1:11 (NIV)

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

 

 

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Philemon 1:12 (NIV)

I am sending him—who is my very heart—back to you.

 

 

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Philemon 1:13 (NIV)

I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel.

 

 

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Philemon 1:14 (NIV)

But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary.

 

 

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Philemon 1:15 (NIV)

Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever—

 

 

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Philemon 1:18 (NIV)

If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me.

 

 

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Luke 15:29 (NIV)

But he answered his father, ÔLook! All these years IÕve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

 

 

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Matthew 18:21-35 (KJV)
21  Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
23  Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
24  And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
25  But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26  The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
27  Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
28  But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
29  And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
30  And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
31  So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
32  Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
33  Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
34  And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
35  So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

 

 

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Matthew 20:20-28 (KJV)
20  Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
21  And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
22  But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
23  And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
24  And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
25  But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
26  But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
27  And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
28  Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

 

 

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Matthew 24:36-51 (KJV)
36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40  Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41  Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47  Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49  And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50  The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51  And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

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