Bible Verses of Slavery

Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

Titus 2:9

They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

Psalms 105:18

and he sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.

Psalms 105:17

Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

Nehemiah 5:5

for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:55

“‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

Leviticus 25:54

They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:53

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.

Leviticus 25:52

If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.

Leviticus 25:51

They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

Leviticus 25:50

An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.

Leviticus 25:49

they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

Leviticus 25:48

“‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner`s clan,

Leviticus 25:47

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:46

You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

Leviticus 25:45

“‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

Leviticus 25:44

Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

Leviticus 25:43

Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25:42

Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

Leviticus 25:41

They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:40

“‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

Leviticus 25:39

But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.

Leviticus 22:11

Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

Job 41:4

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.

Isaiah 52:4

You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.

Habakkuk 3:15

With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.

Habakkuk 3:14

In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.

Habakkuk 3:12

Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

Habakkuk 3:11

the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.

Habakkuk 3:10

You uncovered your bow, you called for many arrows. You split the earth with rivers;

Habakkuk 3:9

Were you angry with the rivers, Lord? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory?

Habakkuk 3:8

I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.

Habakkuk 3:7

He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed— but he marches on forever.

Habakkuk 3:6

Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.

Habakkuk 3:5

The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.

Habakkuk 2:17

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed! The cup from the Lord`s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

Habakkuk 2:16

“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!

Habakkuk 2:15

Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people`s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

Habakkuk 2:13

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!

Habakkuk 2:12

The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

Habakkuk 2:11

You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.

Habakkuk 2:10

“Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!

Habakkuk 2:9

Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.

Habakkuk 2:8

Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:7

“Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, “‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?`

Habakkuk 2:6

Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 1:17

Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.

Habakkuk 1:16

But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman`s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman`s son.”

Galatians 4:30

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:25

These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:24

If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.

Exodus 21:32

And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

Exodus 21:27

“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

Exodus 21:26

but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

Exodus 21:21

“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,

Exodus 21:20

If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.

Exodus 21:11

If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.

Exodus 21:10

If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

Exodus 21:9

If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

Exodus 21:8

“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

Exodus 21:7

then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

Exodus 21:6

“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,`

Exodus 21:5

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

Exodus 21:4

If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.

Exodus 21:3

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

Exodus 21:2

During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.

Exodus 2:23

When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:15

The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

Exodus 2:14

The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

Exodus 2:13

Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:12

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Exodus 2:11

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

Exodus 1:22

“When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

Exodus 1:16

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

Exodus 1:15

They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

Exodus 1:14

and worked them ruthlessly.

Exodus 1:13

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites

Exodus 1:12

So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:11

And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Ephesians 6:9

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

Ephesians 6:5

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

Deuteronomy 29:16

The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Deuteronomy 28:68

If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 24:7

Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.

Deuteronomy 23:16

If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.

Deuteronomy 23:15

If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

Deuteronomy 20:11

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.

Deuteronomy 15:15

Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 15:14

And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed.

Deuteronomy 15:13

If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.

Deuteronomy 15:12

tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6:21

be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Deuteronomy 6:12

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:15

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Deuteronomy 5:6

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

Acts 7:19

Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.`

Acts 7:18

God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.

Acts 7:6

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

2 Corinthians 11:20

Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves. These are the things you are to teach and insist on.

1 Timothy 6:2