Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
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2Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;
Deuteronomy 15:13And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:
Nehemiah 5:5But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
Job 31:13If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
Isaiah 58:3They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Jeremiah 34:9That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
Matthew Henry on Colossians 4:1
I. He continues his account of the duty of masters, from the close of the former chapter, ver. 1 . II. He exhorts to the duty of prayer ( ver. 2-4 ), and to a prudent and decent conduct towards those with whom we converse, ver. 5, 6 . III. He closes the epistle with the mention of several of his friends, of whom he gives an honourable testimony, ver. 7-18 . Read the whole commentary →