Bible Verses About Servants

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Be coming, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it .'

and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

and he would not, but having gone away, he cast him into prison, till he might pay that which was owing.

did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee?

`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

`And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

and immediately he called them, and, having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went away after him.

and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, `Prophesy;' and the officers were striking him with their palms.

`And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

`He who is faithful in the least, is also faithful in much; and he who in the least is unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful--the true who will entrust to you?

and if in the other's ye became not faithful--your own, who shall give to you?

`And it came to pass, on his coming back, having taken the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what any one had done in business.

`And the first came near, saying, Sir, thy pound did gain ten pounds;

`And the second came, saying, Sir, thy pound made five pounds;

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I--I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.