30 Bible Verses about slavery

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

Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?

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.

For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness.

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.

Household slaves, submit yourselves to your masters in all reverence; not only to the kind and gentle, but also to the unreasonable.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

"What God said was this. "'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

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;

"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave

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

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

"Now the slave does not remain permanently in the household, but the son does remain.

And you masters, show the same spirit to your slaves, and stop threatening them; for you know that your masters and theirs is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

(for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.)

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

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

"Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded?

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.