320 Bible Verses about Slavery
Want to know what the Bible says about Slavery? Here are 320 Bible verses about Slavery from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Exodus 21:20 NIV
“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,
1797
1 Corinthians 12:13 NIV
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free —and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1763
Leviticus 25:44 NIV
“‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
1728
Romans 8:15 NIV
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
1719
Proverbs 12:24 NIV
Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in forced labor.
but laziness ends in forced labor.
1683
Leviticus 25:39 NIV
“‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
1645
Romans 6:22 NIV
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
1643
1601
Isaiah 58:6 NIV
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
1511
Deuteronomy 15:12 NIV
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.
1505
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