1. **Exodus 3:7-10**: "The Lord said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.'"
2. **Luke 4:18-19**: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free."
3. **Isaiah 61:1**: "The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners."
4. **Psalm 68:5-6**: "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing."
5. **Jeremiah 22:3**: "This is what the Lord says: 'Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.'"
6. **Matthew 10:34-36**: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.'"
7. **Revelation 6:9-11**: "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?'"
8. **Proverbs 31:8-9**: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."
9. **Deuteronomy 15:12-15**: "If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free. And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed."
10. **Isaiah 58:6**: "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?"
11. **Exodus 14:14**: "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still."
12. **Romans 8:31**: "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
13. **John 8:36**: "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
14. **Psalm 82:3-4**: "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
15. **Matthew 5:10**: "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
16. **Galatians 5:1**: "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
17. **Isaiah 54:17**: "No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,' declares the Lord."
18. **Micah 6:8**: "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
19. **Ephesians 6:10-11**: "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes."
20. **2 Corinthians 3:17**: "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
These verses reflect themes of justice, liberation, and divine intervention, which may have deeply resonated with Turner as he sought to inspire his fellow enslaved individuals to fight for their freedom.
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