32 Bible Verses about Slaves

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give 30 shekels of silver to the slave’s master, and the ox must be stoned.

If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servants
when they made a complaint against me,

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

All who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters to be worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and His teaching will not be blasphemed.

A disciple is not above his teacher, or a slave above his master.

“I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours.

It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more the members of his household!

“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? Instead, will he not tell him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, get ready, and serve me while I eat and drink; later you can eat and drink’?

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;

and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to all.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

Don’t slander a servant to his master
or he will curse you, and you will become guilty.

But if a priest purchases someone with his money, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

Slaves rule over us;
no one rescues us from their hands.

Like a slave he longs for shade;
like a hired man he waits for his pay.

a servant when he becomes king,
a fool when he is stuffed with food,

I have seen slaves on horses,
but princes walking on the ground like slaves.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Were you called while a slave? It should not be a concern to you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.