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1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed. 2 And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech. 3 If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; 4 He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, 5 Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such. 6 But devotion with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out. 1 Timothy 6:1-7, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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