54 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, be obedient unto your carnal masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your hearts, as unto Christ:

Remember ye not how that to whomsoever ye commit yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey: whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Wherefore now art thou not a servant, but a son. If thou be the son, thou art also the heir of God through Christ.

For when ye were servants of sin, ye were not under righteousness.

For he that is called in the Lord being a servant, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise he that is called being free, is Christ's servant.

"And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way which I bade thee that thou shouldest see it no more. And there ye shall be sold unto your enemies, for bondmen and bondwomen: and yet no man shall buy you."

Now is there no Jew, neither gentile, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither man nor woman: but ye are all one thing in Christ Jesus.

Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

The rich ruleth the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Ye are then made free from sin, and are become the servants of righteousness.

Then let his master bring him unto the judges and set him to the door or the doorpost, and bore his ear through with an awl, and let him be his servant forever.

God verily spake on this wise, that this seed should be a dweller in a strange land, and that they should keep them in bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God delivered thee thence: wherefore I command thee this thing today.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to fear anymore, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, "Abba father."

"'If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you,

If thou buy a servant that is an Hebrew, sixth years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free paying nothing.

"If a man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they die under his hand, it shall be avenged.

And I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant; though he be lord of all,

Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, That whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

"Is Israel a bond servant, or one of the household? Why is he then so spoiled?

Art thou called a servant? Care not for it. Nevertheless if thou mayst be free, use it rather.

Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:

And the servant abideth not in the house forever: But the son abideth ever.

And ye masters, do even the same things unto them, putting away threatenings: and remember that even your master also is in heaven, neither is there any respect of person with him.

For we are bondmen, and our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, and hath inclined mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, that he should give us life, and promote the house of our God, and to set up the desolation thereof, and to give us a hedge in Judah and in Jerusalem.

And remember that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, that shall he receive again of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee.

And that he might deliver them which, through fear of death, all their life time were in danger of bondage.

And he said unto Abram, "Know this of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that pertaineth not unto them. And they shall make bondmen of them and entreat them evil, four hundred years.

But and if they continue a day or two, it shall not be avenged for they are his money.

he said, "Cursed be Canaan, and a servant, of all servants be he to his brethren."

Because I brought thee from the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of bondage? Because I made Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead thee?

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and wrap not yourselves again in the yoke of bondage.

And Moses said unto the people, "Think on this day in which ye came out of Egypt and out of the house of bondage: for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out from thence. See therefore that ye eat no leavened bread.

through a servant that beareth rule, through a fool that hath great riches,

Yea, and he which was of the bondwoman, was born after the flesh: but he which was of the freewoman, was born by promise.

For I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I broke the bows of your yokes, and made you go upright.

They promise them liberty, and are themselves the bondservants of corruption. For of whomsoever a man is overcome, unto the same is he in bondage.

Then beware, lest thou forget the LORD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.

- For mount Sinai is called Hagar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the city which is now Jerusalem - and is in bondage with her children.

Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying, 'Let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians?' For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness."

as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness: but even as the servants of God.

And there cried a certain woman of the wives of the children of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, "Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD. And the creditor is come to fetch my two sons, to be his bondmen."

Ye masters do unto your servants that which is just and equal, seeing ye know that ye have also a master in heaven.

And ye shall possess them and give them unto your children after you, to possess them for ever: and they shall be your bondmen. But over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not reign one over another cruelly.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall make him his master at length.

Doth he thank that servant because he did that which was commanded unto him? I think not.

but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

But and if the servant say, 'I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go out free.'

I see servants ride upon horses, and princes going upon their feet as it were servants.