The Christian in the Workplace & School
Relevant Scriptures
Ephesians 6:5–9
Bondservants and Masters
5 Bondservants,1 obey your earthly masters2 with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. 9 Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master3 and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
Footnotes
[1] 6:5
For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 6; likewise for bondservant in verse 8
[2] 6:5Or your masters according to the flesh
[3] 6:9Greek Lord (ESV)
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