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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Colossians 3:12 NIV
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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Matthew 20:26-27 NIV
26 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—
819
Exodus 21:6 NIV
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.
800
Exodus 21:11 NIV
If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
690
Exodus 21:1-4 NIV
21 “These are the laws you are to set before them:
2 “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. 3 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. 4 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.
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1 Corinthians 6:12 NIV
“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
661
Deuteronomy 15:18 NIV
Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
599
John 3:16-17 NIV
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
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Proverbs 30:10 NIV
“Do not slander a servant to their master,
or they will curse you, and you will pay for it.
or they will curse you, and you will pay for it.
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Deuteronomy 15:16 NIV
But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,
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