Quotes about Slavery
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
- Jeremiah 34:13
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
- Jeremiah 34:16
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
- Lamentations 1:3
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- Joel 3:3
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
- Micah 6:4
“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
- John 8:33
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- John 8:34
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
- Romans 6:16
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- Romans 6:19
For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
- Romans 6:20
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
- Romans 6:22
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- Romans 8:15