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, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.”
  John 8:34addictionsin
• 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
• 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 2:9-10work
• 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
• So if the Son makes 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 freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
  Romans 6:22freedomredeemersin
• As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
  1 Peter 2:16lifefreedomevil
• Is not this the fast that I choose:
  to loose the bonds of injustice,
  to undo the thongs of the yoke,
  to let the oppressed go free,
  and to break every yoke?
  Isaiah 58:6fastingneighbor
• 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
• For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
  Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionaddiction
• 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
• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
  because he has anointed me
  to bring good news to the poor.
  He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
  and recovery of sight to the blind,
  to let the oppressed go free.
  Luke 4:18Spiritevangelismfreedom
• The hand of the diligent will rule,
  while the lazy will be put to forced labor.
  Proverbs 12:24rewardwork
• 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
• Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them.
  John 13:16servinghumility
• 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