Ephesians 6:5

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Summary

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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According

Philemon 1:16

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General references

Genesis 24:33

Genesis 30:29

Genesis 31:6

Bible References

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And the Angel of the LORD said unto her, "Return to thy mistress again, and submit thyself under her hands."

Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hands of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he have mercy upon us.

"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

For I also myself am a man under power, and have soldiers under me: and I say to one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it."

When the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him,

Servants, be obedient unto your bodily masters in all things: not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart fearing God.

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

The servants exhort to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please in all things, not answering again,

Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

According

not now as a servant: but above a servant, I mean a brother beloved, specially to me: but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and also in the Lord?

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And I was among you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And now is his inward affection more abundant toward you, when he remembereth the obedience of every one of you: how with fear and trembling ye received him.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, as ye have always obeyed - not when I was present only, but now much more in mine absence - even so work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

while they behold your pure conversation coupled with fear.

General references

and there was meat set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat, until I have said mine errand." And he said, "Say on."

But he said unto him, "Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have been under me:

And ye know how that I have served your father with all my might.