54 Bible Verses about slavery

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?

so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God.

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

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

And Yahweh shall bring you back [to] Egypt in ships by the route that I {promised} to you [that] '{You shall not see it again}!' And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer."

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

Domestic slaves, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those [who are] good and gentle, but also to those [who are] unjust.

The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}.

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

his master will present him to God and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever.

But God spoke like this: 'His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat [them] four hundred years,

And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I [am] commanding you thus {today}.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery [leading] to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

" 'As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that [are] all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman.

'If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go out as free for nothing.

And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

[Is] Israel a slave? Or {a slave born in a house}? Why has he become plunder?

Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

And the slave does not remain in the household {forever}; the son remains {forever}.

And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

For we are slaves and in our bondage our God did not forsake us, and he has extended to us loyal love in the presence of the kings of Persia, to give to us deliverance [and] to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem.

[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

"And you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped [and fled] to you from his master.

and could set free these who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.

And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know} that your descendants shall be [as] aliens in a land {not their own}. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years.

Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money.

And he said, "Cursed [be] Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers."

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slavery I redeemed you. And I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day when you went out from Egypt, from a house of slaves, because with strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from here, and [food with] yeast will not be eaten.

under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food;

But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise,

I [am] Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly.

promising them freedom [although they] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also enslaved.

then take care for yourself, so that you [do] not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.

Isn't this the word we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone [so that] we can serve Egypt!' because serving Egypt is better for us than our dying in the desert."

[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.

Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to take possession of as property {for all time}--you may let them work. But [as for] your countrymen, the {Israelites}, you shall not rule with ruthlessness over {one another}.

He who pampers his servant from childhood, {arrogance will be his end}.

He will not {be grateful} to the slave because he did what was ordered, [will he]?

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.

But if the slave explicitly says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,"

I have even seen slaves [riding] on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth!