32 Bible Verses about Slaves

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

If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

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

"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' 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 be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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

"Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

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

where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.