18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; …
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; …
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: …
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. …
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-25)The general rule of a Christian conversation is this, it must be honest, which it cannot be if there be not a conscientious discharge of all relative duties. The apostle here particularly treats of these distinctly. I. The case of subjects. Christians were not only reputed innovators in religion, but disturbers of the state; it was highly necessary, therefore, that the apostle should settle the ru…
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