Thematic Bible: Duty of, toward servants


Thematic Bible



You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.




You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the Lord and it become sin in you.





“Did not He who made me in the womb make him,
And the same one fashion us in the womb?

“If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves
When they filed a complaint against me,


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.






When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.