28 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?

So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God.

When you served sin, you were free of righteousness.

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

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

Servants, be submissive to your masters with perfect respect, not simply to those who are kind and reasonable but to the surly as well ??19 for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

What God said was this: 'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

What I mean is this. As long as an heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a servant, though he is lord of all the property;

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave.

You were a slave when you were called? Never mind. Of course, if you do find it possible to get free, you had better avail yourself of the opportunity.

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does.

And as for you masters, act by your servants in the same way, and stop threatening them; be sure that they and you have a Lord and Master in heaven, and there is no partiality about him.

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

Masters, treat your servants justly and fairly; remember you have a Master of your own in heaven.

Does he thank the servant for doing his bidding?