32 Bible Verses about Slaves

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

'If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

'A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat? but will not rather say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;

and whoever of you may will to become first, he shall be servant of all;

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread.

Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,

For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use it rather;