And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that [a]your own (A)Master also is in heaven, and (B)there is no partiality with Him.

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  1. Ephesians 6:9 NU He who is both their Master and yours is

25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and (A)there is no partiality.

Christian Graces; Final Greetings

Masters,(B) give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Preaching to Cornelius’ Household

34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: (A)“In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.

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13 “If I have (A)despised the cause of my male or female servant
When they complained against me,
14 What then shall I do when (B)God rises up?
When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?
15 (C)Did not He who made me in the womb make them?
Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

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13 (A)You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.

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If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, (A)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

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To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who (A)are [a]sanctified in Christ Jesus, (B)called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ (C)our Lord, (D)both theirs and ours:

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:2 set apart

31 (A)And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.

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12 Therefore, (A)whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for (B)this is the Law and the Prophets.

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17 For the Lord your God is (A)God of gods and (B)Lord of lords, the great God, (C)mighty and awesome, who (D)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

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Indeed (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and (B)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [a]Sabaoth.

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  1. James 5:4 Lit., in Heb., Hosts

13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown (B)no (C)mercy. (D)Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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10 (A)that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and (B)that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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Bondservants and Masters

(A)Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, (B)with fear and trembling, (C)in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; (D)not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

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22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is (A)the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is (B)Christ’s slave.

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45 (A)But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a (B)day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

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51 and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. (A)There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master (A)is delaying [a]his coming,’

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  1. Matthew 24:48 NU omits his coming

10 So those servants went out into the highways and (A)gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.

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Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not (A)worthy.

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And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(A)Against perjurers,
Against those who (B)exploit wage earners and (C)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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Hear this, you who [a]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,

Saying:

“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (A)the Sabbath,
That we may [b]trade wheat?
(B)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (C)deceit,
That we may buy the poor for (D)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”

The Lord has sworn by (E)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely (F)I will never forget any of their works.

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  1. Amos 8:4 Or trample on, Amos 2:7
  2. Amos 8:5 Lit. open

19 And because of the majesty that He gave him, (A)all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he (B)executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. 20 (C)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

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15 Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, (A)good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. (B)And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?”

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