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• Genesis 16:6

  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

• Genesis 18:19

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

• Genesis 31:7

  Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Genesis 39:11

  About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

• Genesis 39:13

  When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

• Genesis 39:17

  She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

• Genesis 39:18

  and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:19

  When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

• Exodus 21:20

  “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

• Exodus 21:21

  Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

• Exodus 21:26

  “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

• Exodus 21:27

  If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

• Leviticus 19:13

  “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Leviticus 25:43

  You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

• Deuteronomy 5:14

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

• Deuteronomy 24:14

  You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:15

  In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

• Job 31:13

  “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

• Job 31:14

  What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

• Job 31:15

  Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

• Proverbs 22:16

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Proverbs 29:12

  If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

• Proverbs 29:21

  He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

• Jeremiah 22:13

  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

• Malachi 3:5

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 8:19

  A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

• Matthew 23:8

  But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

• Matthew 26:18

  He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”

• Matthew 26:25

  Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You said it.”

• Matthew 26:49

  Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.

• Mark 14:45

  When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.

• Luke 7:2

  A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

• Luke 8:24

  They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

• John 13:13

  You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

• John 13:14

  If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

• Romans 4:4

  Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

• Ephesians 6:9

  You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

• Colossians 4:1

  Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

• 1 Timothy 5:18

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

• Philemon 1:10

  I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

• Philemon 1:11

  who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

• Philemon 1:12

  I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

• Philemon 1:13

  whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

• Philemon 1:14

  But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

• Philemon 1:15

  For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

• Philemon 1:16

  no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

• James 5:4

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.