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Colossians 3:25-4:1
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.
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Acts 10:34
Then Peter began to speak:“ Now I really understand that God doesn’t show favoritism,
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Job 31:13-15
If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servants when they made a complaint against me,what could I do when God stands up to judge? How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same God form us both in the womb?
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John 13:13
You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.
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Luke 6:31
Just as you want others to do for you, do the same for them.
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Romans 2:11
There is no favoritism with God.
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1 Corinthians 1 2
To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord— both their Lord and ours.
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Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them— this is the Law and the Prophets.
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James 2:8
Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.
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1 Corinthians 7 22
For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.
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Leviticus 19:13
“ You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.
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Luke 12:45-46
But if that slave says in his heart,‘ My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
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Malachi 3:5
“ I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.
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Matthew 22:8
“ Then he told his slaves,‘ The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
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Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I profaned My possession, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
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Amos 8:4-7
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,asking,“ When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds.
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James 5:4
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
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Matthew 22:10
So those slaves went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.
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Isaiah 58:3-6
“ Why have we fasted, but You have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but You haven’t noticed!”“ Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?Isn’t the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?
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Philippians 2:10-11
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth—and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Matthew 24:48
But if that wicked slave says in his heart,‘ My master is delayed,’
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Nehemiah 5:5
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
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Psalms 140:12
I know that the Lord upholds the just cause of the poor, justice for the needy.
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Daniel 5:19-20
Because of the greatness He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages were terrified and fearful of him. He killed anyone he wanted and kept alive anyone he wanted; he exalted anyone he wanted and humbled anyone he wanted.But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.
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Job 24:10-12
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry sheaves but go hungry.They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.From the city, men groan; the mortally wounded cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime.
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Matthew 24:51
He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Ephesians 6:5-7
Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men,
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Daniel 3:15
Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire— and who is the god who can rescue you from my power?”
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Nehemiah 5:8-9
and said,“ We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.” They remained silent and could not say a word.Then I said,“ What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
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Daniel 3:6
But whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.”
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Deuteronomy 24:14-15
“ Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.
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Deuteronomy 15:11-16
For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you,‘ You must willingly open your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land.’“ If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.Give generously to him from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You are to give him whatever the Lord your God has blessed you with.Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.But if your slave says to you,‘ I don’t want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,
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James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Leviticus 25:39-46
“ If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt.You are not to rule over them harshly but fear your God.Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you— those born in your land. These may become your property.You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.
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1 Samuel 15 17
Samuel continued,“ Although you once considered yourself unimportant, have you not become the leader of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel
