54 Bible Verses about slavery

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

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

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

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

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ's slave.

Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

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

Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

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

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

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father."

"'As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you -- you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

"If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

"Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers."

In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I delivered you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.

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

Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved, for the Lord brought you out of there with a mighty hand -- and no bread made with yeast may be eaten.

under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery.

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

Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!'"

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.

Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, "Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants."

Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

He won't thank the slave because he did what he was told, will he?

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

But if the servant should declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on foot like slaves.