24 Bible Verses about Slaves

Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ:

Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, to be

Let those who are in a state of servitude, consider the entire respect due to their masters, that the name of God, and the doctrine of the gospel may not be blasphemed.

the disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

I declare unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord, neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him.

remember what I told you, "the servant is not greater than his master." if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have been spies upon my discourse, they will be so upon yours.

if the disciple fare as well as his master, and the servant as his lord, is not that sufficient? if they style the master of the house Beelzebub, much more will they call his domestics so.

Who of you having a servant, that plows, or feeds your cattle, will immediately upon his coming from field, say to him, come and sit at table? won't he rather say, get ready my supper, dress yourself, and wait upon me, till I have done eating and drinking; after that, take your meal?

and whoever would be chief among you, let him be your servant.

and whoever would be the chief, he must be the slave of all the rest.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

servants, be entirely obedient to those, whom the laws have made your masters, and not meerly out of regard to their observation, as designing only to please men, but from a principle of integrity, as fearing God:

as for you, masters, give to your servants what is just and suitable: considering that you also have a master in heaven.

When you did not know God, you did service to those, who in reality are no Gods; but now that you know God,

for the slave that turns christian, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, the freeman that becomes a convert is Christ's servant.

there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

by which there is now neither Greek, or Jew; circumcised, or uncircumcised; Barbarian, or Scythian; slave, or freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

henceforth I do not treat you as servants; for the servant is unacquainted with his master's affairs: but I have treated you as friends; for what I have learnt of my father, I have communicated to you.

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.