54 Bible Verses about slavery

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

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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

for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

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:

'And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'

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;

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.

and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.

'And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, 'Abba -- Father.'

And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast are of the nations who are round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand -- he is certainly avenged;

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

Jesus answered them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?

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

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

for servants we are, and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

'Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;

and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

and He saith to Abram, 'knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he is his money.

and saith: 'Cursed is Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

And Moses saith unto the people, 'Remember this day in which ye have gone out from Egypt, from the house of servants, for by strength of hand hath Jehovah brought you out from this, and any thing fermented is not eaten;

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

but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;

I am Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their servants; and I break the bars of your yoke, and cause you to go erect.

liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

'Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,

Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, 'Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'

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

and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy for a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, At his latter end also he is continuator.

Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

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