Leviticus 25:43

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You are not to rule over them harshly  but fear your God.

Cross References

Colossians 4:1

Masters,  deal with your slaves justly and fairly, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

Leviticus 25:46

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.

Leviticus 25:17

You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

Ephesians 6:9

And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening  them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favouritism  with him.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the ill, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost.  Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

Leviticus 25:53

He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident foreigner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

Malachi 3:5

‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.

Isaiah 58:3

‘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.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I profaned my possession, and I handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

Deuteronomy 25:18

They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

Exodus 5:14

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten  and asked, ‘Why haven’t you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before? ’

Exodus 3:9

So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing  them,

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, ‘I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out  because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,

Exodus 2:23

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labour, they cried out,  and their cry for help because of the difficult labour ascended to God.

Exodus 1:21

Since the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Exodus 1:17

The midwives, however, feared God  and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them;  they let the boys live.

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, ‘I fear God   #– #do this and you will live.

Leviticus 25:42

They are not to be sold as slaves,  because they are my servants  that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 25:44

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

2 Chronicles 28:10

Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?

Job 31:13

If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servants when they made a complaint against me,

Job 31:14

what could I do when God stands up to judge? How should I answer him when he calls me to account?