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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 16:6–9

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her. / Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur. / “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nehemiah 5:8

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 19:15, 16

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. / I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 31:13, 14

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, / what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 123:2

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 12:9

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 19:10

Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 25:13

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 26:6

Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 27:18, 27

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored. / You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 29:19, 21

A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond. / A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 30:10, 21–23

Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt. / Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: / an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 7:21

Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 52:3

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 22:13

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 34:8–17

After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD / that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. / 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,

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 8:9

For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 10:24, 25

A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. / It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 24:45–51

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time? / Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. / Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 12:35–48

Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning. / Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. / Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 16:1–13

Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. / So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’ / The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 17:7–9

Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? / Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’? / Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 22:27

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 13:16

Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Corinthians 4:2

Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Corinthians 7:21–24

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity. / For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave. / You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ephesians 6:5–9

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. / And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. / Serve with good will, as to the Lord and not to men,

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Colossians 3:22–25

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord. / Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, / because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Timothy 6:1, 2

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited. / Those who have believing masters should not show disrespect because they are brothers, but should serve them all the more, since those receiving their good service are beloved believers. Teach and encourage these principles.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Titus 2:9, 10

Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, / not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

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Servant: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Peter 2:18–20

Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable. / For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended. / How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

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