18 ^wServants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.¹

Bondservants and Masters

5 ^vBondservants,¹ obey your earthly masters² with fear and trembling, ^wwith a sincere heart, ^xas you would Christ,

22 Bondservants, obey ^xin everything those who are your earthly masters,¹ not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Put On the New Self

1 ^bIf then you have been raised with Christ, seek ^cthe things that are above, where Christ is, ^dseated at the right hand of God.

1 ^oLet all who are under a yoke as bondservants¹ regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, ^pso that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

9 ^dBondservants¹ are to be submissive to their own masters ^ein everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,