30 Bible Verses about slavery

You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

You servants must be submissive to your masters and perfectly respectful to them; not only to those who are kind and considerate, but also to those who are unreasonable.

and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.

So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.

and free from their slavery men who had always lived in fear of death.

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.

promising them freedom when they are themselves slaves of destruction; for a man is the slave of whatever overcomes him.

(and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia), and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom an excuse for doing wrong, but be slaves of God.

You who are masters must treat your slaves justly and fairly, and remember that you have a Master too, in heaven.

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.