Bible Verses About Servitude

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;

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

But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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.

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

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

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

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.

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

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

Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

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.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

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

That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

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.

But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

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.

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.