Bible Verses About Master: Scriptures relating to masters of servants

"If a person beats his male or female slave with a stick so severely that he dies, he is to be punished;

except that if the slave lives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his property.

"If a person hits his male or female slave's eye and destroys it, he must let him go free in compensation for his eye.

If he knocks out his male or female slave's tooth, he must let him go free in compensation for his tooth.

Do not oppress or rob your neighbor; specifically, you are not to keep back the wages of a hired worker all night until morning.

Do not treat him harshly, but fear your God.

but the seventh day is a Shabbat for ADONAI your God. On it you are not to do any kind of work - not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your ox, your donkey or any of your other livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property - so that your male and female servants can rest just as you do.

"You are not to exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or a foreigner living in your land in your town.

You are to pay him his wages the day he earns them, before sunset; for he is poor and looks forward to being paid. Otherwise he will cry out against you to ADONAI, and it will be your sin.

"If I ever rejected my slave or slave-girl's cause, when they brought legal action against me;

then what would I do if God stood up? Were he to intervene, what answer could I give?

Didn't he who made me in the womb make them too? Didn't the same one shape us both before our birth?

Both oppressing the poor to enrich oneself and giving to the rich yield only loss.

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

A slave who is pampered from youth will in the end be ungrateful.

"Woe to him who builds his palace unfairly, its upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor work for free and will not give him his wages;

"Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don't fear me," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

Now the account of someone who is working is credited not on the ground of grace but on the ground of what is owed him.

And masters, treat your slaves the same way. Don’t threaten them. Remember that in heaven both you and they have the same Master, and he has no favorites.

Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly. Remember that you too have a Master in heaven.

For the Tanakh says, “You are not to muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain,” in other words, “The worker deserves his wages.”

My request to you concerns my son, of whom I became the father while here in prison, Onesimus.

His name means “useful,” and although he was once useless to you, he has now become most useful — not only to you but also to me;

so that in returning him to you I am sending a part of my very heart.

I would dearly have loved to keep him with me, in order for him to serve me in your place while I am in prison because of the Good News.