Exodus 21:5
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
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- Deuteronomy 15:16–17 But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you, then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14–15 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- Isaiah 26:13 O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone do we confess.