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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1 Peter 2:17

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1 Peter 3:16

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When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his menservants and a religiously minded soldier who belonged to his personal retinue,

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.

Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory,

Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

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So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.

To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come;

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.

to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands ??otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel.

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.