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Duties of Servants and Masters

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect,[a] so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.[b] Moreover, those who have believing masters should be respectful to them, because they are fellow believers.[c] In fact, they must serve them even better, because those who benefit from their service are believers and dear to them. These are the things you must teach and exhort.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 6:1 Or of full honor
  2. 1 Timothy 6:1 Or slandered
  3. 1 Timothy 6:2 Lit. brothers