30 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ:

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue.

for the slave that turns christian, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, the freeman that becomes a convert is Christ's servant.

there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

You that are servants, be subject to your masters with all reverence: not only to such as are kind and gentle,

being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

God declar'd likewise, "that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years.

for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, whosoever committeth sin, is a slave to sin.

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,

a slave has no right to be in the house for life: but the son is settled there.

and you masters have a just regard to them, by softning your authority: knowing that both their and your master is in heaven, where there is no respect of persons with him.

and not to men: considering that whatever good any man doth, he shall be rewarded for it by the Lord, whether he be a slave or free.

and deliver them who thro' fear of death were all their life-time in a state of slavery.

Stand fast therefore, and be not hampered again with the yoke of bondage.

he, who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the ordinary course of nature; but he, who was of the free-woman, was born by virtue of the promise.

whilst they promise others liberty, they themselves are slaves to their corrupt passions. for he that is vanquished, is a slave to the conqueror.

this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:

men. You are free, don't let your liberty serve as a pretext for vice: but act as the servants

as for you, masters, give to your servants what is just and suitable: considering that you also have a master in heaven.

will he think himself oblig'd to that servant for doing what he was order'd? I believe not.

but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.