32 Bible Verses about Slaves

Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;

If the ox gore a bondman or a handmaid, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;

Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.

The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the bondman above his lord.

Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.

Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

It is sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?

But which of you is there who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table? But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that thou shalt eat and drink?

and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;

and whosoever would be first of you shall be bondman of all.

Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

But if a priest buy any one for money, he may eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they may eat of his food.

Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,

Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:

wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is everything, and in all.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.