32 Bible Verses about Slaves

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he will give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox will be stoned.

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

Slaves must be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not to talk back,

All those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, lest the name of God and the teaching be slandered.

"A disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor a slave superior to his master.

Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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

[It is] enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household?

"And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding [sheep] who comes in from the field will say to him, 'Come here at once [and] recline at the table'? Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something that I may eat, and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and after these [things] you will eat and drink.'

and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be your slave--

and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be the slave of all.

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Do not slander a servant to his master, or else he will curse you and you will be guilty.

But a priest, if [with] his money he buys a person [as] {his possession}, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food.

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food;

I have even seen slaves [riding] on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth!

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

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

where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, [or] free, but Christ [is] all, and in all.

No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God.

Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].