Bible Verses About Master: Scriptures relating to masters of servants

He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.

Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.

Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:

But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.

And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt.

And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings: knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven. And there is no respect of persons with him.

Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:

Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel.