1 Timothy 6:1

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Summary

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

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Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment.”

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

Aram had gone on raids and brought back from the land of Israel a young girl who served Naaman’s wife.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household slaves and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the Emperor.

That the

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”

Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up. Praise Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting.”

Praise Your glorious name,
and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

So now what have I here”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“that My people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’

He said to His disciples, “Offenses will certainly come, but woe to the one they come through!

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

Give no offense to the Jews or the Greeks or the church of God,

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

However, do this with gentleness and respect, keeping your conscience clear,

so that when you are accused, those who denounce your Christian life will be put to shame.