The word in Scripture

Bondage in the Bible

The word bondage appears 39 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Bondage is slavery, whether to sin, fear, or law. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What bondage means in the Bible

Bondage is slavery, whether to sin, fear, or law.

Where the word bondage appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word bondage appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.”Exodus 6:5

“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”Exodus 20:2

“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,”Isaiah 14:3

“They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?”John 8:33

“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”Romans 8:21

“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.”Galatians 4:24

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”Galatians 5:1

“And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”Hebrews 2:15