12 Bible Verses about Making Slaves

but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

The rich ruleth the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

"'If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you,

and of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you, and of their generations that are with you, which they begat in your land.

And he said, "Now therefore, according unto your words, he with whom it is found shall be my servant: but ye, shall be harmless."

For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour, if a man take, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold to be bondmen and bondwomen, then would I hold my tongue; although the enemy could not recompense the king's loss.

Which things betoken mystery. For these women are two testaments, the one from the mount Sinai, which gendreth unto bondage, which is Hagar.

And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

But afterward they repented, and took again the servants and the hand maidens, whom they had let go free, and so made them bond again.

But yet ye have turned yourselves again, and blasphemed my name, in this: That every man hath required his servant and handmaid again, whom ye had letten go quit and free, and compelled them to serve you again, and to be your bondmen.

and refused to hear, and were not mindful of the wonders that thou didst for them: but became obstinate and heady insomuch that they turned back to their bondage in their disobedience. But thou, my God, forgavest, and wast gracious, merciful, patient, and of great goodness, and forsookest them not.