Sentences with phrase «hired servant»

A "hired servant" refers to someone who is employed by another person or organization to work for them in exchange for wages or payment. The hired servant is not the owner or boss, but instead works under the direction and control of their employer. Full definition
You can also hire a servant to help with all of the house chores and make the building process go faster.
While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.
Seventh: Theft crimes occurring by hired servants to the prejudice of their masters, or by the employees, artisans, or lads working in the laboratories or stores of their employers, or in the shops where they usually work.
Lev 25:40 «As a hired servant [and] a sojourner he shall be with you, [and] shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
Now the contrast is not between owner and thief, right or wrong entry and the true gate, but between owner and hired servant, between the one who runs from the wolf and the One who lays down his life for the sheep.
Now that they are living like kings in this foreign country, they are able to hire servants and maids to do their shopping, cooking, cleaning, yard work, and child - rearing.
Then he came to himself, and said, How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, while I am dying here of hunger.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.
40 As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
Consequently when Israel is called to imitate this righteous God, it too shall care for those who can not take care of themselves; it shall not «trample the head of the poor... and turn aside the way of the afflicted» (Amos 2:7); it shall not oppress its slaves nor its hired servants, be they fellow citizens or foreigners.
The son planned to come back and to ask to be received as a hired servant: he never got the chance to make the request; he is welcomed as a son (Luke 15:11 - 32).
Such are hired servants and not willfull servants, such won't watch over a small flock of believers because they want fixed income that suits thier lifestyle, the office of pastor and teacher are not salaried positions but are a service to God as a noble task to feed and watch over souls willingly and lovingly, top dollar should not play a roll in ones willingness to equip and lead whom you love.
«Make me,» he said to his father, «Make me as one of your hired servants,» only make me different from what I have been.
He came to himself saying, «I will arise and go to my father — and ask to be taken on as a hired servant
Here the setting is moved to India, where the not - so - wealthy (but still rich enough to hire servants) Bakshi family resides in a less - than - touristy district.
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