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 5:1 Jesus life redeemer
• Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.”
  John 8:34 addiction sin
• Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back, not stealing, but showing complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the teaching of God our Savior.
  Titus 2:9-10 work
• For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
  Romans 8:15 fear Spirit children
• 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 5:15 sabbath
• So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
  John 8:36 Jesus redeemer freedom
• The rich rule over the poor,
  and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  Proverbs 22:7 money debt poverty
• But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  Romans 6:22 freedom redeemer sin
• As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
  1 Peter 2:16 life freedom evil
• Is not this the fast that I choose:
  to loose the bonds of injustice,
  to undo the straps of the yoke,
  to let the oppressed go free,
  and to break every yoke?
  Isaiah 58:6 fasting neighbor
• 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 20:26-27 humility serving neighbor
• 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, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
  Romans 6:5-6 sin resurrection addiction
• 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 3:28 Jesus community understanding
• 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 set free those who are oppressed.
  Luke 4:18 Spirit evangelism freedom
• The hand of the diligent will rule,
  while the lazy will be put to forced labor.
  Proverbs 12:24 reward work
• 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 12:13 baptism Spirit community
• Very truly, I tell you, slaves are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them.
  John 13:16 serving humility
• This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the righteous 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, the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11 law sin sexuality