30 Bible Verses about slavery

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?

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

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free so far as doing right was concerned.

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.

You house-servants must be submissive to your masters and show them perfect respect, not only to those who are kind and fair but also to those who are cruel.

and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.

This is what God promised: 'His descendants will be strangers living in a foreign land, and its people will enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.'

For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

Were you called while a slave? Stop letting that annoy you. Yet, if you can win your freedom, take advantage of such an opportunity.

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,

Now a slave does not live permanently in a household, but a son does.

You slave-owners, too, must maintain the same attitude toward your slaves, and stop threatening them, for you know that their real Lord and yours is in heaven, and that He never shows partiality.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.

and set at liberty those who all their lifetime had been subject to slavery because of their dread of death.

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise.

promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.

that is, Hagar (and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do?

But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.