Quotes about Servitude
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
— 1 Corinthians 7:23
By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
— Esther 1:8
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.
— 1 Corinthians 7:22
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.
— Isabel Allende
When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
— Exodus 14:5
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
— Catherine of Siena
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
— Jeremiah 34:16
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
— Joshua 9:27
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
— Martin Luther
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
— Leviticus 25:50
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
— Genesis 29:29
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
— Genesis 47:21