Colossians 4:1
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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In Context
2Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:39“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
Deuteronomy 15:13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Job 31:13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,
Isaiah 58:3‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Jeremiah 34:9that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew 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 →