54 Bible Verses about slavery

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Topics on Slavery

Slavery, In Nt

Acts 16:16-21

And it came to pass, as we were going to prayer, for a certain servant girl having a spirit of divination to meet us, who brought her masters much business by soothsaying.

Slavery, In Ot

Deuteronomy 20:10-11

When thou draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

Slavery, Spiritual

John 8:33-36

They answered to him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in bondage to no man, ever. How can thou say, Ye will become free?

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