30 Bible Verses about slavery

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.

You, therefore, are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, then an heir also, by God's appointment.

While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary.

Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.

God's words were these--'Abraham's descendants shall live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.'

My point is this--As long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate.

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

And a slave does not remain in the home always; but a son remains always.

And masters, treat your slaves in the same spirit. Give up threatening them; for you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in Heaven, and that before him there is no distinction of rank.

For you know that every one will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or a freeman.

and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

(The word Hagar meaning in Arabia Mount Sinai) and it ranks with the Jerusalem of to-day, for she and her children are in slavery.

Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

Masters, do what is right and fair by your slaves, for you know that you also have a Master--in Heaven.

Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?

No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.