54 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Therefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies as male and female slaves, and no man shall buy you.

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

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

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

Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

And God spoke in this way, That his descendants should live in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and ill-treat them for four hundred years.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.

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

Both your male and female slaves, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them shall you buy male and female slaves.

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

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

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.

Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he plundered?

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

And the servant abides not in the house forever: but the Son abides ever.

And, you masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

For we were slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to rebuild the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man does, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

You shall not deliver unto his master the servant who has escaped from his master unto you:

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your descendants shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

But, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his property.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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

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

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

For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your slaves forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with harshness.

He that carefully brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son in the end.

Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.

But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.