Bible Verses About Slaves And Christian Freedom

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

classic freedom passage from Galatians

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

direct Bible instruction for slaves in the household

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

slaves are the Lord's freedman and the free are Christ's servants

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

says a slave need not worry but may gain freedom

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

Slaves of sin contrast with righteousness

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Set free from sin and made slaves of righteousness

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

believers are not to become servants of men

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Parallel household code instruction

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

teaches honor for believing masters

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

same household order teaching in another epistle

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

masters must be just and fair

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

contrasts children of the slave and free woman

That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

Philemon speaks of no longer as a slave but a brother

Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

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But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Set free from sin and become slaves of God

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Freedom should be used in love, not for the flesh

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Obedience or sin as slavery language

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

ties slave conduct to equal reward from the Lord

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.