30 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto the Lord:

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey? Whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

For he that is called by the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; and in like manner, he that is called being free, is the servant of Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Honour the king, Servants be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Being then set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.

And God spake thus: That his seed should sojourn in a strange land, (and they will inslave them and treat them evil) four hundred years.

For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that practiseth sin, is the slave of sin:

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

And the slave abideth not in the house for ever; but the Son abideth ever.

And ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatning, knowing that your master is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Knowing that whatsoever good each man doth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a servant or free.

And deliver them, as many as through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

And he of the bond-woman was born after the flesh, but he of the free-woman by promise.

While they promise them liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him he is also brought into slavery.

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.

yet not having your liberty for a cloak of wickedness, but as the servants of God.

Masters, give your servants that which is just and equitable, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.

Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him?

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should become a reprobate.