Colossians 4:1
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that all of you also have a Master in heaven.
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In Context
2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:39And if your brother that dwells by you be becoming poor, and be sold unto you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Deuteronomy 15:13And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:
Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Job 31:13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Isaiah 58:3Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast all of you find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Jeremiah 34:9That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to know, 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 →