God and Slavery

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing…If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. But [...]

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“Take This Job and _______!” (*fill in the blank)

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his [...]

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The Submissive Wife

Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that *I may live because of you.” So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. [...]

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Married Men: Get with the Program

But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none. 1 Corinthians 7:29
What?
It is true, the Apostle Paul really did pronounce that married, Christian men should subsist as if they were not married, although he was not talking about [...]

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Leave and Cleave

And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:23-24
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Men and woman are different [...]

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