Bible Verses About Struggles of 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;

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.

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?

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.

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 it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

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

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

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

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

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

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.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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.

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

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

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

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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

Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

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

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.