Colossians 4:1
You masters, treat your servants in a way that is right and fair, recognizing that you too have a Master in heaven.
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2Remember to keep on praying, with an alert and thankful mind!
Cross References
Leviticus 25:39If any of your people become poor and have to sell themselves to work for you, don't force them to work as a slave.
Deuteronomy 15:13And when you free them, don't send them away with nothing.
Nehemiah 5:5Even though we are the same people as our creditors and though our children are the same as their children, yet we going to have to turn our sons and daughters into slaves. In fact some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we can't do anything about it, because our fields and our vineyards are now owned by others.”
Job 31:13If I had refused to listen to my menservants or maidservants when they brought their complaints to me,
Isaiah 58:3“Didn't you see that we fasted?” they ask. “Didn't you notice how we denied ourselves?” That's because whenever you fast you still do whatever you want, and you treat your workers badly.
Jeremiah 34:9This meant that every slave owner should free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female. No one was to force their fellow citizens to remain slaves any longer.
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 →