Quotations From the King James Bible On Servitude
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but
of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
- Romans 13:1
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with
eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
- Colossians 3:22
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether
it be to the king, as supreme: or unto governors...
- 1 Peter 2:18
... Then said the Lord to me, Go ye, love a woman, beloved of her friend,
yet an adulteress... so I bought her...
- Hosea 3:1
The Scribes and Pharises sit in Moses seat; all, therefore, whatsoever they
bid you observe, that observe and do.
- Matthew 23:2-3
I councel thee to keep the king's commandment... whoso keepeth the commandment
shall feel no evil thing.
- Ecclesiastes 23:2-5
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall be unto his bretheren.
- Genesis 4:25
I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people afar off; for the Lord
hath spoken it.
- Joel 3:8
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good
and gentle, but also to the foward.
- 1 Peter 2:18
Let as many servants as are under your yoke count their own masters worthy
of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
- 1 Timothy 6:1
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh,
with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.
- Ephesians 6:5
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them
well in all things; not answering again; not purloining, but showing good
fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
- Titus 2:9-10
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under
his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a
day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
- Exodus 21:20-21
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh
he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out
by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his
master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the
wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children;
I will not go free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall
also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore
his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
- Exodus 21:2-6
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's...
- Matthew 22-21
For everyone that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to
death.
- Leviticus 20:9
Both thy bondsmen, and thy bondsmaids, which thou shall have, shall be of
the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondsmen and
bondsmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among
you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which
they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall
take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them
for a possession...
- Leviticus 25:44-45
For ye, bretheren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea
are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own
countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus
and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God,
and are contrary to all men.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:The first and the last, who
was dead, and has come to life, says this: I know your tribulation and your
poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews
and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
- Revelations 2:9
[Jews calling for the crucifiction of Jesus:] "... His blood be on us and
on our children!"
- Matthew 27:25
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Jewry,
because the Jews saught to kill him.
- John 7:1
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die.
- John 19:7
[Jesus Christ addressing Jews:] "You are of your father the devil, and you
want to do the desires of your father... you are not of God."
- John 8:44-47
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman
whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
-Number 21:1