24 Bible Verses about Slaves

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;

Exhort slaves to be obedient to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in every respect;

Let those who are under the yoke as slaves esteem their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teachings be not blasphemed.

"A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters.

In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

"It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, 'Come at once, sit down to dinner,' "and will not rather tell him, 'Get ready something for me to eat, and gird yourself to wait on me until I have eaten and drunken. Then you shall eat and drink.'

"and whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be your slave;

and whoever among you would be first, shall be slave of all,

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

Slaves, obey in all things your earthly masters, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of purpose, out of reverence for your Lord.

Masters, deal justly and fairly with your slaves, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.