54 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.