30 Bible Verses about slavery

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result)

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through God's own act.

For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.

For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.

In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.

You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--

And God declared that Abraham's posterity should for four hundred years make their home in a country not their own, and be reduced to slavery and be oppressed.

You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.

Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does.

And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely earthly distinctions there are none with Him.

You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man.

and might set at liberty all those who through fear of death had been subject to lifelong slavery.

Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

But we see that the child of the slave-girl was born in the common course of nature; but the child of the free woman in fulfilment of the promise.

And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.

This is Hagar; for the name Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage together with her children.

Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.

Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves, knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven.

Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.