30 Bible Verses about slavery

Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;

Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness?

Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.

For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.

There is no more Jew or Gentile, there is no more slave or freeman, there is no more male or female: but ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but even to the froward.

Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.

Then spake God to him thus, That his seed should sojourn in a foreign land: and that they should enslave it, and grievously afflict it, four hundred years.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

NOW I affirm, that as long as the heir is an infant, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all;

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That every one who committeth sin is the slave of sin.

Art thou called being a slave? let it give thee no concern; but if thou canst also obtain thy freedom, rather make use of it.

So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:

But the slave abideth not in the family for ever: but the son abideth for ever.

And ye masters, do the same things to them, avoiding menacing language: knowing that you also yourselves have a master in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him.

knowing that whatsoever good a man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a bondman, or whether he be free.

and deliver those, even as many as through their whole life were subjects of bondage to the fear of death.

STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.

Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise.

Preaching liberty to them, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, by that also he is enslaved.

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds with Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.

MASTERS, afford to your servants that which is just, and an equivalent, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Doth he hold it as a favour from that servant, that he did the things which were ordered him? I think not.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.