Bible Verses about “slave”
The Bible contains 50 verses about slave across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
“‹No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›”
“Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.”
“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
“And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.”
“Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;”
“¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
“Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.”
“‹The Spirit of the Lord› [is] ‹upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,›”
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
“Servants, obey in all things [your] masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:”
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,”
“Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.”
“[Exhort] servants to be obedient unto their own masters, [and] to please [them] well in all [things]; not answering again;”
“Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
“¶ Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.”
“Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.”
“Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.”
“And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.”
“And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”
“And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,”
“And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.”
“¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine].”
“Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.”
“¶ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.”
“And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”
“If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.”
“And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.”
“And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.”
“But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.”
“Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?”
“And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:”
“Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money.”
“¶ Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.”
“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.”
“And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.”
“And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.”
“If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.”
“If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.”
“The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.”
“If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.”
“If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.”
“And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.”
“If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.”
“And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.”
“And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.”
“And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:”
“If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.”
“If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit.”
“But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.”