if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me toward you,

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,