Bible Verses about Slavery

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• For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
  Galatians 5:1Jesusliferedeemer
• Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.”
  John 8:34addictionsin
• For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
  Romans 8:15fearSpiritchildren
• You shall 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 5:15sabbath
• Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
  Titus 2:9-10work
• So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
  John 8:36Jesusredeemerfreedom
• The rich rules over the poor,
  and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  Proverbs 22:7moneydebtpoverty
• But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
  Romans 6:22freedomredeemersin
• Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
  1 Peter 2:16lifefreedomevil
• Is not this the fast that I choose:
  to loose the bonds of wickedness,
  to undo the straps of the yoke,
  to let the oppressed go free,
  and to break every yoke?
  Isaiah 58:6fastingneighbor
• It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
  Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionaddiction
• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
  because he has anointed me
  to proclaim good news to the poor.
  He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
  and recovering of sight to the blind,
  to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
  Luke 4:18Spiritevangelismfreedom
• There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  Galatians 3:28Jesuscommunityunderstanding
• The hand of the diligent will rule,
  while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
  Proverbs 12:24rewardwork
• For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
  1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritcommunity
• Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
  John 13:16servinghumility
• Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11lawsinsexuality