Genesis 16:9

New International Version

Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

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Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.

“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”