30 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, be subject to your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?

So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ.

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor free man, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse.

and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness.

And God spoke thus: That his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, and they should enslave them and afflict them, for four hundred years.

For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;

Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin.

Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom.

So, also, we, when we were minors, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

The servant continues not in the house forever; but the Son continues forever.

And you masters, do the same things to them, leaving off threatening, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

and might set free those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.

While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

For Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage with her children.

as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

Masters, give to your servants what is just and equal, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

Does he thank that servant, because he did what was commanded? I think not.

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.