24 Bible Verses about Slaves
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Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;
Let servants be subject to their own masters, in all things to be agreeable to them; not contradicting;
LET as many slaves as are under the yoke account their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.
The disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor the servant above his master.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his master; nor the messenger greater than him that sent him.
Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your's also.
It is sufficient if the disciple be as his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they have called the master of the family Beelzebub, how much more his domestics?
But which of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, when he cometh from the field, will say immediately, Come, sit down at table? And will he not rather say, Prepare for me to sup, and gird thyself, and wait upon me, till I eat and drink; and after that, thou shalt eat and drink thyself?
NOW I affirm, that as long as the heir is an infant, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all;
Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
MASTERS, afford to your servants that which is just, and an equivalent, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.
But at that time when ye knew not God, ye served those who by nature are not gods.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.
There is no more Jew or Gentile, there is no more slave or freeman, there is no more male or female: but ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Where there is no difference whether a man be Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian, slave or freeman: but Christ is all and in all.
I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father.
Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.
Art thou called being a slave? let it give thee no concern; but if thou canst also obtain thy freedom, rather make use of it.
Topics on Slaves
Groups Of Slaves
Acts 7:6Then spake God to him thus, That his seed should sojourn in a foreign land: and that they should enslave it, and grievously afflict it, four hundred years.
Making Slaves
1 Corinthians 9:27but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.
People Freeing Slaves
1 Corinthians 7:21Art thou called being a slave? let it give thee no concern; but if thou canst also obtain thy freedom, rather make use of it.
Slaves Of God
2 Timothy 2:24And a servant of the Lord ought not to quarrel; but to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, forbearing,
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