Quotes about Mistreatment

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people's unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

Moses had a choice of following God or reveling in the pleasures of Egypt. As heir to the throne of Egypt, he enjoyed luxury; he didn't desire to suffer or sacrifice any more than we do, but he chose to follow God. "He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time