Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’

But if ¹  that evil slave should say to himself, ²  ‘My master is staying away a long time,’

And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

At harvest time he sent a slave ¹  to the tenants to collect from them ²  his portion of the crop. ³ 

So ¹  he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave, ¹  cutting off his ear.

Now ¹  while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls ²  came by.

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”

A centurion ¹  there ²  had a slave ³  who was highly regarded, ⁴  but who was sick and at the point of death.

So ¹  he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed. ² 

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  everyone who practices ²  sin is a slave ³  of sin.

From Paul, ¹  a slave ²  of Christ Jesus, ³  called to be an apostle, ⁴  set apart for the gospel of God. ⁵ 

Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹  we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

You learned the gospel ¹  from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave ²  – a ³  faithful minister of Christ on our ⁴  behalf –

Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave ¹  in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me. ² 

From James, ¹  a slave ²  of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. ³  Greetings!

Then the slave threw himself to the ground ¹  before him, saying, ²  ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything.’

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

But his master answered, ¹  ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

But ¹  one of those with Jesus grabbed ²  his sword, drew it out, and struck the high priest’s slave, ³  cutting off his ear.