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

⁹ Masters, do the same to them, ^(A)and stop your threatening, knowing that ^(B)he who is both their Master^[a] and yours is in heaven, and that ^(C)there is no partiality with him.

³⁹ And ^(A)a second is like it: ^(B)You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ^(A)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. ⁹ But if you ^(B)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.