24 Bible Verses about Slaves

You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,

Tell slaves always to obey their masters and try to please them, not to oppose them

All who are under the yoke of slavery must treat their masters with the greatest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

A pupil is not better than his teacher, nor a slave better than his master.

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,' instead of saying to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself, and wait on me while I eat and drink, and you can eat and drink afterward'?

and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be your slave,

and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be everybody's slave.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,

You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

You who are masters must treat your slaves justly and fairly, and remember that you have a Master too, in heaven.

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

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

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.