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 to Christ;

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

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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

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

And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I have said to thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold to your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, 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 ye 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 froward.

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

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

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

And God spoke on this wise, That his offspring should sojourn in a foreign land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill four hundred years.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing this day.

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

Both thy bond-men, and thy bond-maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are around you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids.

If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing.

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

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

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he laid waste?

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest 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 abideth not in the house for ever, but the Son abideth for ever.

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

For we were bond-men; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Knowing that whatever good thing any man doeth, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant who hath escaped from his master to thee:

And deliver them, who, through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Notwithstanding, if he shall continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money.

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

For I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee from the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

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

And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye 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 reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.

But he who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men, and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

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

Then beware lest thou shouldst forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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

Is not this the word that we told thee 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 cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant feared the LORD: and the creditor hath come to take to him my two sons to be bond-men.

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

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession, they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him at length become his son.

Doth he thank that servant, because he did the things that were commanded him? I suppose not.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.

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

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