Bible Verses about 'Slave'

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• Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.”
  John 8:34addictionsinslavery
• The rich rules over the poor,
  and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  Proverbs 22:7moneydebtslavery
• There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
  Galatians 3:28Jesuscommunityunderstanding
• It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
  Exodus 20:17greedmaterialismlaw
• Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
  Deuteronomy 5:15sabbathslavery
• The hand of the diligent will rule,
  while the lazy will be put to forced labor.
  Proverbs 12:24rewardworkslavery
• No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
  Matthew 6:24servingmoneydebt
• His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’
  Matthew 25:21reliabilityrewardblessing
• Who, though he was in the form of God,
  did not regard equality with God
  as something to be exploited,
  but emptied himself,
  taking the form of a slave,
  being born in human likeness.
  And being found in human form,
  he humbled himself
  and became obedient to the point of death—
  even death on a cross.
  Philippians 2:6-8SaviorobedienceJesus
• Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.
  Deuteronomy 5:12-14sabbathrest
• This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11lawsinsexuality
• Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
  Exodus 20:8-11sabbath
• For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
  1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritcommunity
• For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
  Galatians 5:1Jesusliferedeemer
• For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
  Romans 8:15fearSpiritchildren
• But I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgmentbody
• “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
  1 Corinthians 6:12addictiondesireslife
• For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.
  Galatians 5:13freedomhumilitydesires
• Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back, not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior.
  Titus 2:9-10slaverywork