32 Bible Verses about Slaves

Bondmen, be obedient to the masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ.

If the ox gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,

Let bondmen, as many as are under a yoke, regard their own masters worthy of all respect, so that the name of God and the doctrine may not be blasphemed.

A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a bondman above his lord.

Truly, truly, I say to you, a bondman is not greater than his lord, nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him.

Remember the word that I said to you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

It is enough for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the bondman like his lord. If they have called the house-ruler Beelzebub, how much more those of his household.

But which of you having a bondman plowing or feeding livestock, who, when he comes in from the field, will straightaway say, After coming near, sit down? Will he not rather say to him, Prepare what I may dine, and having gird thyself, serve me until I eat and drink, and after these things thou will eat and drink?

and whoever wants be first among you shall be your bondman.

and whoever of you may want to become first, will be a bondman of all.

But I say the heir, for as long a time as he is a child, differs nothing from a bondman though he is lord of all.

Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it, and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,

For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,

I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.

But of course not knowing God then, ye were in bondage to those in nature who are not gods,

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondman nor freeman, there is no male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ.

I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

So that thou are no longer a bondman but a son, and if a son, then an heir through Christ.

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.