Quotes About Enslavement

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.í”

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

ëBut I will punish the nation that enslaves them,í God said, ëand afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.í

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.