Colossians 4:1
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
- KJV
- Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
- WEB
- Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
- ASV
- Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
- DARBY
- Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that *ye* also have a Master in [the] heavens.
- BLB
- Masters, provide to [your] slaves that which [is] right and that which [is] equal, knowing that you⁺ also have a Master in heaven.
- ÅB
- Dere herrer! gjør imot deres tjenere det som rett og rimelig er, for dere vet at også dere har en herre i himlene!
- OTB
- Herrer, gi deres slaver rettferdighet og rettferd, idet dere vet at dere også har en Herre i himmelen.
- B1930
- I herrer! gjør imot eders tjenere det som rett og rimelig er, for I vet at også I har en herre i himlene!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 6:8–20
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Read in contextRevelation 17:14
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:14–15
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Read in contextJames 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Read in contextLuke 16:1–13
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Read in contextMatthew 24:48–51
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Read in contextJames 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 5:8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
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