Bible Verses about “slavery”
The Bible contains 16 verses about slavery 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.”
“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
“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,›”
“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;”
“¶ 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 stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”
“And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.”
“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?”
“Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money.”