32 Bible Verses about Slaves

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not talking back;

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his lord.

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

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

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

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to eat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready that I may eat, and gird yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you shall eat and drink?

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

And whosoever of you will be the first, shall be servant of all.

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

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye service, as men pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

But if the priest buys any person with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his food.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.

As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for the reward of his work:

For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

But then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not 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 you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.