'Slave' in the Bible
So Mary said, "Behold, the Lord's female slave! May it happen to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
because he has looked upon the humble state of his female slave, for behold, from now on all generations will consider me blessed,
"Now dismiss your slave in peace, Lord, according to your word.
Now a certain centurion's slave, who was esteemed by him, {was sick} [and] was about to die.
So [when he] heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come [and] cure his slave.
For this reason neither did I consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and my slave must be healed.
For I also am a man placed under authority, who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another one, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does [it]."
And [when they] returned to the house, those who had been sent found the slave healthy.
Blessed [is] that slave whom his master will find so doing [when he] comes back.
But if that slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is taking a long time to return,' and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,
the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers.
And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.
And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, 'Come, because now it is ready!'
And the slave came [and] reported these [things] to his master. Then the master of the house became angry [and] said to his slave, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame!'
And the slave said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.'
And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press [them] to come in, so that my house will be filled!
No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money."
"And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding [sheep] who comes in from the field will say to him, 'Come here at once [and] recline at the table'?
He will not {be grateful} to the slave because he did what was ordered, [will he]?
And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, {have authority} over ten cities.'
He said to him, '{By your own words} I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenant farmers, so that they would give him [some] of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenant farmers sent him away empty-handed [after] beating [him].
And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, [and] sent [him] away empty-handed.
And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.
And a certain female slave, seeing him sitting in the light and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him!"