² Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are ^(A)brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.

False Teachers and True Contentment

^(B)Teach and urge these things.

¹¹ Command and teach ^(A)these things.

4 Masters, treat your bondservants^[a] justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, ^(A)she looked with contempt on her mistress.^{[a] 5} And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May ^(B)the Lord judge between you and me!”

⁸ Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^(A)blaspheme the glorious ones.

¹⁰ and especially ^(A)those who indulge^[a] in the lust of defiling passion and ^(B)despise authority.

Bold and willful, they do not tremble ^(C)as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

Shepherd the Flock of God

5 So I exhort the elders among you, ^(A)as a fellow elder and ^(B)a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:

¹⁴ For we have come to share in Christ, ^(A)if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

Jesus Greater Than Moses

3 Therefore, holy brothers,^[a] you who share in ^(A)a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, ^(B)the apostle and high priest of our confession,

¹⁰ I appeal to you for ^(A)my child, ^(B)Onesimus,^{[a] (C)}whose father I became in my imprisonment. ¹¹ (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) ¹² I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. ¹³ I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me ^(D)on your behalf ^(E)during my imprisonment for the gospel, ¹⁴ but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be ^(F)by compulsion but of your own accord. ¹⁵ For this perhaps is why ^(G)he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, ^16 (H)no longer as a bondservant^[b] but more than a bondservant, as ^(I)a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, ^(J)both in the flesh and in the Lord.