1 Timothy 6:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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After the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a religious soldier who was one of his devoted attendants,

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

Slaves, practice obedience to your earthly masters in everything, not as though they were watching you and as though you were merely pleasing men, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

Continue urging slaves to practice perfect submission to their masters and to give them perfect satisfaction,

Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor.

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So I would have the younger women marry, have children, and keep house, so as not to give our opponents any occasion for slander.

Now He said to His disciples: "It is inevitable that snares to evil will come, but a curse be on the man through whom they come!

For, as the Scripture says, the name of God is abused among the heathen because of you.

Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

to be serious, pure, home keepers, kind, and subordinate to their husbands, so as not to cause God's message to suffer reproach.

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who bitterly abuse your excellent conduct as Christians may be ashamed of slandering you.