24 Bible Verses about Slaves

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

Urge slaves to be submissive to their owners in all circumstances, and to try their best to please them.

All who are in the position of slaves should regard their masters as deserving of the greatest respect, so that the Name of God, and our Teaching, may not be maligned.

A scholar is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man who sends him.

Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

It is enough for a scholar to be treated like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Baal-zebub, how much more the members of his household!

Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, 'Come at once and take your place at table,' Instead of saying 'Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and wait on me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you shall eat and drink yourself'?

No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to take the first place among you, must be your slave;

And whoever wants to take the first place among you must be the servant of all;

My point is this--As long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate.

Slaves, always obey your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had but to please men, but giving them ungrudging service, in your reverence for the Master.

Masters, do what is right and fair by your slaves, for you know that you also have a Master--in Heaven.

Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman; but Christ is all!--and in all!

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

You, therefore, are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, then an heir also, by God's appointment.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.