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Bible Verses About Slavery
Find Bible verses about slavery — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about slavery?
The Bible addresses slavery with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
John 8:34
“Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.”
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Deuteronomy 28:68
“Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.”
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Genesis 37:28
“Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.”
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Romans 6:16
“Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?”
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Deuteronomy 28:48
“therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.”
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Ezekiel 27:13
“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.”
Exodus 1:11
“Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.”
Genesis 39:1
“Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.”
Genesis 16:1
“Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.”
Exodus 14:12
“Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wildernes...”
Leviticus 25:44
“"'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.”
Nehemiah 5:4
“There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.”
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