Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.
New American Standard Bible
Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness,
King James Version
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
A Conservative Version
Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.
American Standard Version
Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Amplified
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
An Understandable Version
You masters should treat your slaves in a just and fair way, knowing that you also have a Master [who] is in heaven.
Anderson New Testament
Masters, give to your servants what is just and equal, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.
Bible in Basic English
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
Common New Testament
Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Daniel Mace New Testament
as for you, masters, give to your servants what is just and suitable: considering that you also have a master in heaven.
Darby Translation
Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.
Godbey New Testament
Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Goodspeed New Testament
You who are masters must treat your slaves justly and fairly, and remember that you have a Master too, in heaven.
John Wesley New Testament
Masters, give your servants that which is just and equitable, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.
Julia Smith Translation
Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.
King James 2000
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye masters do unto your servants that which is just and equal, seeing ye know that ye have also a master in heaven.
Moffatt New Testament
Masters, treat your servants justly and fairly; remember you have a Master of your own in heaven.
Montgomery New Testament
Masters, deal justly and fairly with your slaves, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
NET Bible
Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
New Heart English Bible
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Noyes New Testament
Masters, deal out to your bondservants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.
Sawyer New Testament
Masters, render to your servants what is just and equal, knowing also that you have a master in heaven.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye masters! that which is just and equitable, unto your servants, be rendering, knowing that, ye also, have a Master in heaven.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
MASTERS, afford to your servants that which is just, and an equivalent, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Masters, do what is right and fair by your slaves, for you know that you also have a Master--in Heaven.
Webster
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Weymouth New Testament
Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves, knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven.
Williams New Testament
Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.
World English Bible
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Worrell New Testament
Masters, render justice and equity to your servants, knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven.
Worsley New Testament
and ye masters, render to your servants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Youngs Literal Translation
The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.
Themes
Business life » Employers » Just dealing
Duty » Masters' » Just dealing
Employers » Duties of » Just dealing
Justice » To be done » To servants
Masters' » What masters should do
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To deal with them in the fear of God
Servant » Hired » Unclassified scriptures relating to
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 4:1
Images Colossians 4:1
Prayers for Colossians 4:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
1 Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven. 2 Continue in prayer and watch in it with thanksgiving,
Cross References
Matthew 24:48-51
But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delays His coming,
Luke 19:15
And when he had received his kingdom and had returned, then it happened that he commanded these servants to be called to him; the ones to whom he had given the silver; so that he might know what each had gained by trading.
Leviticus 19:13
You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.
Leviticus 25:39-43
And if your brother who lives beside you has become poor, and is sold to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bond-servant.
Deuteronomy 15:12-15
If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates.
Nehemiah 5:5-13
Yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons like their sons. And, lo, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage. And there is no power for our hand, for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Job 24:11-12
They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.
Job 31:13-15
If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me;
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.
Isaiah 58:5-9
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?
Jeremiah 34:9-17
that each man should let his male slave, and each man his female slave, if a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free, that none should enslave a Jew, his brother among them.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Luke 16:1-13
And He also said to His disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him, that he had wasted his goods.
Ephesians 6:8-20
(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).
James 2:13
For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Revelation 17:14
These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.
Revelation 19:16
And He has on His garment, and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.
Matthew 23:8-9
But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers.