Leviticus 25:43

Bible in Basic English 1965

Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

Cross References

Genesis 42:18

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

Job 31:13

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

Job 31:14

What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

Exodus 1:17

But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.

Exodus 1:21

And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.

Exodus 2:23

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Exodus 3:7

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

Exodus 3:9

For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

Exodus 5:14

And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

Leviticus 25:17

And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:42

For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

Leviticus 25:44

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

Leviticus 25:46

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

Leviticus 25:53

And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Ephesians 6:9

And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.

Deuteronomy 25:18

How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.