Bible Verses about Slavery

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• Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  Galatians 5:1Jesusliferedeemer
• Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.”
  John 8:34addictionsin
• For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
  Romans 8:15fearSpiritchildren
• And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  Deuteronomy 5:15sabbath
• Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
  Titus 2:9-10work
• Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
  John 8:36Jesusredeemerfreedom
• The rich rules over the poor,
  And the borrower is servant to the lender.
  Proverbs 22:7moneydebtpoverty
• But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
  Romans 6:22freedomredeemersin
• As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
  1 Peter 2:16lifefreedomevil
• Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
  To loose the bonds of wickedness,
  To undo the heavy burdens,
  To let the oppressed go free,
  And that you break every yoke?
  Isaiah 58:6fastingneighbor
• Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
  Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionaddiction
• The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
  Because He has anointed Me
  To preach the gospel to the poor;
  He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
  To proclaim liberty to the captives
  And recovery 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 neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  Galatians 3:28Jesuscommunityunderstanding
• The hand of the diligent will rule,
  But the lazy man will be put to forced labor.
  Proverbs 12:24rewardwork
• For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
  1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritcommunity
• Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
  John 13:16servinghumility
• Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11lawsinsexuality