32 Bible Verses about Slaves

Slaves, be obedient to those that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto the Christ,

If the ox shall gore a manslave or a maidslave, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;

Exhort slaves to be subject to their own masters and to please them well in all things; not contradicting;

Let all that are under the yoke of slavery count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine not be blasphemed.

The disciple is not above his master, nor the slave above his lord.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the slave as his lord. If they have called the husband of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call those of his household?

But which of you, having a slave plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by when he is come from the field, Go and sit down at the table? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thyself and serve me until I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your slave,

and whosoever of you that desires to be first shall be slave of all.

Now I say That the heir, as long as he is a child differs in nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all,

Slaves, in all things hearken unto your masters according to the flesh, not serving to be seen as those who only please men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

Masters, do that which is just and right with your slaves, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Do not accuse a slave in the presence of his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

But when the priest shall buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Slaves have ruled over us: there was no one to deliver us out of their hand.

As a slave earnestly desires the shade and as a hireling waits for rest from his work,

For a slave when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with bread;

I saw slaves upon horses, and princes walking as slaves upon the earth.

However then, when ye did not know God, ye did service unto those who by nature are not gods.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's slave.

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

where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, slave nor free: but Christ is all and in all.

From now on I do not call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

therefore, thou art no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Art thou called being a slave? care not for it; but if thou may be made free, use it rather.