Colossians 4:1
The masters: give that which is righteous and equal to the servants, having known that you also have a Master in the heavens.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Continue in the prayer, watching in it in thanksgiving,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:39And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you do not lay servile service on him;
Deuteronomy 15:13And when you send him away free from you, you do not send him away empty;
Nehemiah 5:5and now, as the flesh of our brothers [is] our flesh, as their sons [are] our sons, and behold, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are [those] of our daughters subdued, and our hand has no might, and our fields and our vineyards [are] to others.”
Job 31:13If I despise the cause of my manservant, || And of my handmaid, || In their contending with me,
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and You do not know. Behold, you find pleasure in the day of your fast, || And exact all your laborers.
Jeremiah 34:9to each send out his manservant, and each his maidservant—the Hebrew and the Hebrewess—free, so as not to lay service on them—on any Jew, a brother, a man;
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 →