5Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
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Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. …
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; …
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. …
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here we have further directions concerning relative duties, in which the apostle is very particular. I. The duty of children to their parents. Come, you children, hearken to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord . The great duty of children is to obey their parents (Eph. 6:1), parents being the instruments of their being, God and nature having given them an authority to command, in subservienc…
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