30 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, obey them that are your masters according to the flesh, with reverential fear, in the simplicity of your heart, as unto Christ:

God forbid! Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey? either of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

So that thou art no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.

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

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

and there is neither Jew nor Greek, those is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ye who are servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and mild, but also to the morose:

and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.

And God spake thus unto him, "that his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and they shall in slave and abuse them four hundred years:"

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

Now as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he is to be lord of all:

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily I say unto you, whosoever maketh a practice of sin, is the servant of sin.

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

So we when we were children, were in servitude under the elements of the world:

Now the servant does not continue always in the family: but the Son abideth always.

And ye masters, do the same to them, forbearing threatening: knowing that ye yourselves also have a Master in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with Him.

knowing that whatever good any one doth, he shall receive the reward of it from the Lord, whether He be a slave or free.

and deliver those who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage.

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

But he who was of the servant, was born according to the course of nature; whereas the son of the free-woman was by virtue of the promise.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whom any one is vanquished, by him he is also enslaved.

a rock, is expressive of mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage with her children.

as free, and yet not using your liberty as a cloke for wickedness, but as the servants of God.

and ye masters, render to your servants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Is he obliged to that servant for doing what he was ordered?

but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.