According to both the Old Testament and the New Testament, slavery is wrong. This is very important to pay attention to. We see in Exodus 21:16 a clear condemnation of anyone who steals someone to make them a slave: “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.” And in the New Testament, in 1 Timothy 1:9–10, it says, “The law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers
