Leviticus 25:43

Kindness For Poor Brothers

⁴² Since they're my servants whom I've brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves. ⁴³ You are not to rule over them with harshness. You are to fear your God." ⁴⁴ "As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations.

Fear of God

Stand in Awe

Rule Over

Colossians 4:1

Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Exodus 1:13-14

The Egyptians ruthlessly forced the Israelis to serve them,

Leviticus 25:17

No one is to cheat his neighbor. Instead, you are to fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 25:46

You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.

Leviticus 25:53

Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.

Ezekiel 34:4

You haven't strengthened the weak, treated the sick, set broken bones, regathered the scattered, or looked for the lost. Instead, you've dominated them with brutal force and ruthlessness.

Ephesians 6:9

Masters, treat your slaves the same way. Do not threaten them, for you know that both of you have the same Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God and didn't do what the king of Egypt told them. Instead, they let the boys live.

Exodus 1:21

Because the midwives feared God, he provided families for them.

Exodus 2:23

The king of Egypt eventually died, and the Israelis groaned because of the bondage. They cried out, and their cry for deliverance from slavery ascended to God.

Exodus 3:7

The LORD said, "I have certainly seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their slave masters. I really do understand their pain,

Exodus 3:9

Now, listen carefully! The cry of the Israelis has come to my attention about how severely the Egyptians have been oppressing them.

Exodus 5:14

The Israeli supervisors whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had appointed over them were beaten and told, "Why didn't you, both yesterday and today, fulfill your quota for making bricks as before?"

Deuteronomy 25:18

how when you were very tired and weary, they lay in wait for you on the road and eliminated everyone who was lagging behind. They had no fear of God.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, and I desecrated my heritage, and gave them into your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the aged you laid your yoke most heavily.

Isaiah 58:3

"Why have we fasted,' they ask, "but you do not see? "Why have we humbled ourselves,' they ask, "but you take no notice?'" "Look! On your fast day you serve your own interest and oppress all your workers.

Malachi 3:5

"I'll come near to you for judgment. I'll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don't fear me," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.