54 Bible Verses about slavery

Bondmen, be obedient to the masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ.

Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?

So that thou are no longer a bondman but a son, and if a son, then an heir through Christ.

For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness.

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

And LORD will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to thee, Thou shall see it no more again. And there ye shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondman nor freeman, there is no male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

And God spoke thus: His seed would be alien in a foreign land, and they would enslave and mistreat them four hundred years.

And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and LORD thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today.

For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them.

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

But I say the heir, for as long a time as he is a child, differs nothing from a bondman though he is lord of all.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.

Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.

And so when we were children, we were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

And the bondman does not remain in the house into the age. The Son remains into the age.

And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him.

For we are bondmen, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, a

Knowing that whatever good thing each may do, he will receive this from the Lord, whether bondman or freeman.

Thou shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to thee.

And he might liberate these, as many as throughout all their lifetime were deserving of bondage, with a specter of death.

And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.

For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage. And I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand LORD brought you out from this place. There shall no leavened bread be eaten.

For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,

But in fact, the man from the servant girl was born according to flesh, but the man from the freewoman through promise.

I am LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen. And I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

then beware lest thou forget LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo

Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take them your bondmen forever, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

Does he have a favor for that bondman because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free,

I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.