Friday, May 15, 2020

Colossians 4:1

Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. 

Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair 
Leviticus 25:42-43  " 'Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves. Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.' "
Leviticus 25:53  " 'They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.' "
Exodus 1:11-14  So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with forced labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
Ezekiel 34:2-4  "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.' "

because you know that you also have a Master in heaven 
Isaiah 66:1-2a  This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and also they came into being?" declares the LORD.
Matthew 6:9-10  "This then is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.' "

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