24 Bible Verses about Slaves

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

Continue urging slaves to practice perfect submission to their masters and to give them perfect satisfaction,

All who are under the yoke of slavery must esteem their masters to be deserving the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

No pupil is better than his teacher, and no slave is better than his master.

I most solemnly say to you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

"What man among you, if he has a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your seat at the table,' but will not rather say to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself and wait on me until I eat and drink, and you yourself can eat and drink afterward'?

and whoever wants to hold first position among you must be your slave,

and whoever wants to hold the first positions among you must be everybody's slave.

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

Slaves, practice obedience to your earthly masters in everything, not as though they were watching you and as though you were merely pleasing men, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

But at that former time, as you did not know the true God, you were slaves to gods that do not really exist,

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.

In this new relation there is no Greek and Jew, no circumcised and uncircumcised, no barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is everything and in us all.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir by God's own act.

Were you called while a slave? Stop letting that annoy you. Yet, if you can win your freedom, take advantage of such an opportunity.