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.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:9 Greek Lord

25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

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

Footnotes

  1. Colossians 4:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for servant in verse 12

Gentiles Hear the Good News

34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that (A)God (B)shows no partiality,

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11 For (A)God shows no partiality.

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13 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,
    when they brought a complaint against me,
14 what then shall I do when God rises up?
    When he (A)makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
15 Did (B)not he who made me in the womb make him?
    And did not one fashion us in the womb?

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31 And (A)as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

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The Golden Rule

12 “So (A)whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is (B)the Law and the Prophets.

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

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

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To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those (A)sanctified in Christ Jesus, (B)called to be saints together with all those who in every place (C)call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

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13 (A)You call me (B)Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

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Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.

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

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Bondservants and Masters

(A)Bondservants,[a] obey your earthly masters[b] with fear and trembling, (B)with a sincere heart, (C)as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as (D)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:5 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 6; likewise for bondservant in verse 8
  2. Ephesians 6:5 Or your masters according to the flesh

22 For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is (A)a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is (B)a bondservant of Christ.

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45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master (A)is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and (B)get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come (C)on a day when he does not expect him and (D)at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

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51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place (A)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master (A)is delayed,’

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

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

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“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

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Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
saying, “When will (B)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And (C)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (D)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
that we may buy the poor for (E)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

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

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

19 And because of the greatness that he gave him, (A)all peoples, nations, and languages (B)trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. 20 But (C)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, (D)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

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15 Now if you are ready when (A)you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.[a] But if you do not worship, (B)you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And (C)who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:15 Aramaic lacks well and good

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