¹⁰ And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?

^39 (A)“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: ⁴⁰ he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. ^41 (B)Then he shall go out from you, ^(C)he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return ^(D)to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are ^(E)my servants,^[a] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. ^43 (F)You shall not rule over him ^(G)ruthlessly but ^(H)shall fear your God. ⁴⁴ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. ^45 (I)You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. ⁴⁶ You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel ^(J)you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

¹⁷ For it is time for judgment ^(A)to begin at the household of God; and ^(B)if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who ^(C)do not obey the gospel of God? ¹⁸ And

²⁰ To the contrary, ^(A)“if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

^2 (A)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and ^(B)with the measure you use it will be measured to you. ³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but ^(C)do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?

²⁹ For behold, ^(A)I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, ^(B)for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’