Deuteronomy 15:1

“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,

At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.