Colossians 4:1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. 1. When they require inconvenient things; for though the servant must obey, yet the master sins in requiring unequal things. 2. When they impose more work than they have strength to do. 3. When they turn them away when they are sick; for it is equal that as thou hast had their labour when they were well, so thou shouldest keep them when they are sick. 4. When they restrain them of liberty for their souls. If thou have the work of their bodies, it is equal that thou take care for their souls; and if they serve thee six days, it is very equal thou shouldest proclaim liberty to them to do God's work on the Sabbath day. 5. When they restrain and withhold their meat and wages. 6. When they send them out of their service empty, after many years' bondage, and not provide that they may have some means to live afterwards. 7. When they hear every word that men say of their servants (Ecclesiastes 7:23). 8. When they bring up their servants delicately (Proverbs 27:23). 9. When they leave the whole care of their earthly business to their servants, and fail to know the state of them for themselves (Proverbs 27:23). (N. Byfield.) Parallel Verses KJV: Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. |
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