Colossians 4:1
Masters, give to slaves what is right and fair. You know that you also have a master in heaven.
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2Continue steadfastly in prayer. Stay alert in it in thanksgiving.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:39If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.
Deuteronomy 15:13When you let him go free from you, you must not let him go empty-handed.
Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh and blood is the same as our brothers, and our children are the same as their children. We are forced to sell our sons and our daughters to become slaves. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved. But it is not in our power to help it because other men now own our fields and our vineyards.”
Job 31:13If I ignored the plea for justice from my male or female servant 1 when they argued with me, 1
Isaiah 58:3'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'but you do not see it? Why have we humbled ourselves, but you do not notice?' 1 Look, on the day of your fast you find your own pleasure and oppress all your laborers. 1
Jeremiah 34:9that each man must free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, so one was to make a slave of a Jew, who was his brother.
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 →