Sentences with phrase «of slave masters»

While mutinous slaves may not be able to save themselves, by rebelling they can reduce the number of slave masters who prey on nearby relatives.

Why does this woman, who is descended from slaves, still kneeling at the altar of a God that was of her slave masters creation.

You think anyone would want their family to become the property (including sëxual property) of their slave master?

Not exact matches

Weymouth New Testament Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

New American Standard Bible (© 1995) Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

Ephesians 6:5 New International Version (© 1984) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

The goal of early American liquor regulation was not to minimize liquor consumption, but to ensure that taverns and inns remained safe and unthreatening to the social order (for instance, by prohibiting sales to servants and slaves without the permission of their masters).

Ephesians 6:5 - 9 (NRSV) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Masters are given the same set of principles concerning submission as slaves.

These two truths render the definition of «will» in regard to fallen man as «captive to sin» (Acts 8:23), a «slave of sin» (John 8:34; Romans 6:16 - 17) and subject only to its «master,» which is sin (Romans 6:14).

They asked who could question the Word of God when it said, «slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling» (Ephesians 6:5), or «tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect» (Titus 2:9).

In I Peter 2, Christian slaves of unjust masters are urged to imitate the way of the cross: «For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps....

People used the Bible to justify slavery («Slaves be subservient to your masters») and the oppression of women («Wives be subservient to your husbands») and many other crimes.

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

Peter tried to defend his Master with a sword, and he cut off the ear of the high priest's slave.

A little more research revealed that all three of the passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to submit to their masters.

How is nature to be anything but the slave of the human master?

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

According to the Bible God hated more than he loved, and the crap that is the 1st few books of the old testament, which s barbaric and evil, not only to those men that are an abombanation, but those that not only eat pork, but touch a football, shellfish, work on the sabbath, blasphamy, slaves who do nt allow there master to sleep with there wifes / daughters, and those that dared not idolise him because he is a jealous and vengeful God!

There are extensive topics regarding the subject, all pointing to the absolute obedience of a slave to his master.

Aristotle wrote that «the smallest and primary parts of the household are master and slave, husband and wife, father and children» and devoted several sections of his Politics to the importance of free men ruling over their wives, children, and slaves.

One popular legend is that the lights are the lantern of a faithful slave searching for his lost master.

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

The series will be similar to our Mutuality Week from 2012, but will focus specifically on those frequently - cited passages of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands, slaves to submit to their masters, children to submit to their parents, and Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21 - 6:9, Colossians 3:12 - 4:6; 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22).

And that there's plenty of laws for the master to protect the slave.

As an expression of His mercy and His goodness to His slaves, He has made man master of the earth, God's deputy on earth to make use of its blessings by using and developing its natural resources.

I see people mastered by selfish ambition, driven like slaves to achieve their dreams of avarice or power.

Surely it is with this understanding of Jesus» call that we are to read such difficult biblical passages as Colossians 3:22, which bids slaves be obedient to their masters, as though they were obeying Christ himself.

Paul mentions females in positions of authority in his (authentic) letters, and early Christianity was unique in pagan antiquity in that it allowed everyone to sit at the table, regardless of ethnicity, sex, or status as slave or master.

In 1858 he wrote a three sentence summary of his thought «On Slavery and Democracy»: «As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.

This is the second post in a weeklong series entitled «Submit One To Another: Christ and the Household Codes,» which will focus on those frequently - cited passages of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands, slaves to obey their masters, children to obey their parents, and Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21 - 6:9, Colossians 3:12 - 4:6; 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22).

fortune, an exchange of situation [between masters and slaves] is among the possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference!

He thought that the liability of an employer for the torts of his employees should be construed narrowly as a relic of the Roman law of master and slave, and he was in general content to leave without remedy employees injured by unsafe working conditions.

The Hadith recounts a story of a slave woman who insulted Muhammad and he was originally angry to learn that she had been killed until given the full story about how she had persisted in insulting him in spite of her master's orders for her to stop.

It is thus that we participate in liberation in order to uproot the systems of bondage — that there may be no slaves or masters, but a co-humanity in Christ Jesus our Lord, in the church as an extension of the incarnation and consequently among all people.

Paul makes it clear what he means: slavery to Christ is about exclusive ownershipâ $» Christ is master / lord (kurios is the simple word for master - owner of a slave).

Paulâ $ ™ s most common self - description throughout his letters is: â $ œI am a slave who is sent by Jesus to non-Jews to communicate the good news that the Kingdom of God has come in Jesus.â $ English readers of the Bible find it easy to overlook this important aspect of Paulâ $ ™ s self - understanding, since the 190 different Greek terms used for slavery in the New Testament are sanitized to â $ œservant.â $ This is not a very appropriate translation, since in Paulâ $ ™ s day 1 / 3rd of the population of the Roman empire were masters who owned slaves, 1 / 3rd of the people were slaves, and 1 / 3rd were former slaves.

I would have to agree, if you have no sense of justice or mercy and you can live in a world where you are the master instead of the slave yet simultaneously believe that you are kind and compassionate, that is the perfect recipe for personal peace and happiness.

What is in the masters interest, the value of the slave as an asset or the master being sideways with his god are not germane to the discussion.

Douglass wrote a letter to the man who had once been his slave master in which he said that God is the God of all, the God of master and slave alike, that God is «our common Father and Creator» (MBMF 427).

Hegel hinted at this when he recognized the slave, not the master, as the instrument of History, because the slave works upon nature and molds it to human consciousness.

In fact after a certain period of time, the master has to release his slave, but often the slave would choose continuing with his master... The slave would become part of the family.

18 Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

In the time of slavery, slave masters would use religion as a tool for controlling slaves.

I assume you mean 1 Peter 2:18» Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.»

«Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.»

(Ephesians 6:5 NLT) Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed.

You are the lord / master of your house and family... But that does not make them your slaves but make of you their protector... Any way the verse means that the way you treat your wife the way she would become to be... May God bless us and our families.