New American Standard Bible 2020

Ephesians 6:5-9

5 1Slaves, be obedient to those who are your 2masters according to the flesh, with 3fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, 4as to Christ; 6 5not 6by way of 7eye-service, as 8people-pleasers, but as 9slaves of Christ, 10doing the will of God from the 11heart. 7With goodwill 12render service, 13as to the Lord, and not to people, 8 14knowing that 15whatever good thing each one does, he will receive this back from the Lord, 16whether slave or free.

9And masters, do the same things to them, and 17give up threatening, knowing that 18both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is 19no partiality with Him.

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Notes

1. Ephesians 6:5 Col 3:22; 1 Tim 6:1; Titus 2:9 ↩
2. Ephesians 6:5 I.e., earthly masters, as in first-century Roman culture ↩
3. Ephesians 6:5 1 Cor 2:3 ↩
4. Ephesians 6:5 Eph 5:22 ↩
5. Ephesians 6:6 Col 3:22 ↩
6. Ephesians 6:6 Lit according to ↩
7. Ephesians 6:6 I.e., only when the master is watching ↩
8. Ephesians 6:6 Gal 1:10 ↩
9. Ephesians 6:6 1 Cor 7:22 ↩
10. Ephesians 6:6 Mark 3:35 ↩
11. Ephesians 6:6 Lit soul ↩
12. Ephesians 6:7 Lit rendering ↩
13. Ephesians 6:7 Col 3:23 ↩
14. Ephesians 6:8 Col 3:24 ↩
15. Ephesians 6:8 Matt 16:27; 2 Cor 5:10; Col 3:24f ↩
16. Ephesians 6:8 1 Cor 12:13; Col 3:11 ↩
17. Ephesians 6:9 Lev 25:43 ↩
18. Ephesians 6:9 Job 31:13ff; John 13:13; Col 4:1 ↩
19. Ephesians 6:9 Deut 10:17; Acts 10:34; Col 3:25 ↩

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