'Slaves' in the Bible

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

The landowner’s slaves came to him and said, ‘Master, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’

“‘An enemy did this!’ he told them.“‘So, do you want us to go and gather them up?’ the slaves asked him.

For this reason, the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

“But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him 100 denarii. He grabbed him, started choking him, and said, ‘Pay what you owe!’

When the other slaves saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and went and reported to their master everything that had happened.

When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.

But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come.

Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

And the others seized his slaves, treated them outrageously and killed them.

“Then he told his slaves, ‘The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

So those slaves went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.

and starts to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards,

“For it is just like a man going on a journey. He called his own slaves and turned over his possessions to them.

“After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.

It is like a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his slaves, gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.

Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready, have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.

If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

“But the father told his slaves, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

He called 10 of his slaves, gave them 10 minas, and told them, ‘Engage in business until I come back.’

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

Now the slaves and the temple police had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold. They were standing there warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, warming himself.

One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

I will even pour out My Spiriton My male and female slaves in those days,and they will prophesy.

And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,

I will judge the nationthat they will serve as slaves, God said.After this, they will come outand worship Me in this place.

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household slaves and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

As she followed Paul and us she cried out, “These men, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation, are the slaves of the Most High God.”

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves because of Jesus.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus:To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

All who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters to be worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and His teaching will not be blasphemed.

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

Household slaves, submit with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave Him to show His slaves what must quickly take place. He sent it and signified it through His angel to His slave John,

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

So a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told to rest a little while longer until the number would be completed of their fellow slaves and their brothers, who were going to be killed just as they had been.

“Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”