Quotes About Servitude

So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.í

Then people will reply, ëBecause they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.í”

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

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.

Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëI have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.í”

So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

“Yes, Lord,” she said, “even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masterís table.”

Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever.

not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

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

Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,