Parallel Verses
Webster
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye 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 King James verseion
Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, 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.
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 servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. 2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Cross References
Matthew 24:48-51
But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming;
Luke 19:15
And it came to pass, that when he had returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
Leviticus 19:13
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Leviticus 25:39-43
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee shall have become poor, and be sold to thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant:
Deuteronomy 15:12-15
And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, shall be sold to thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Nehemiah 5:5-13
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Job 24:11-12
Who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
Job 31:13-15
If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are 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 as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Jeremiah 34:9-17
That every man should liberate his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess; that none should retain them in service, to wit, a Jew his brother.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Luke 16:1-13
And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.
Ephesians 6:8-20
Knowing that whatever good thing any man doeth, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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 they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Revelation 19:16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? why have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Matthew 23:8-9
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.