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Business life » Employers » Just dealing
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Duty » Masters' » Just dealing
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Employers » Duties of » Just dealing
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Justice » Encouraged
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.
You shall pursue justice, and only justice [that which is uncompromisingly righteous], so that you may live and take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
“Maintain justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is soon to come,
And My righteousness and justice is soon to be revealed.
To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].
Pay to all what is due: tax to whom tax is due, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, honor to whom honor.
Justice » To be done » To servants
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Masters' » What masters should do
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Servants (slaves), be obedient to those who are your physical masters, having respect for them and eager concern to please them, in singleness of motive and with all your heart, as [service] to Christ [Himself] -- " Not in the way of eye-service [as if they were watching you] and only to please men, but as servants (slaves) of Christ, doing the will of God heartily and with your whole soul; Rendering service readily with goodwill, as to the Lord and not to men, read more.
Knowing that for whatever good anyone does, he will receive his reward from the Lord, whether he is slave or free. You masters, act on the same [principle] toward them and give up threatening and using violent and abusive words, knowing that He Who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons (no partiality) with Him.
Knowing that for whatever good anyone does, he will receive his reward from the Lord, whether he is slave or free. You masters, act on the same [principle] toward them and give up threatening and using violent and abusive words, knowing that He Who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons (no partiality) with Him.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To deal with them in the fear of God
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
You masters, do the same [showing goodwill] toward them, and give up threatening and abusive words, knowing that [He who is] both their true Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with Him [regardless of one’s earthly status].
Master's duty » Just dealing
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Servant » Hired » Unclassified scriptures relating to
“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the Lord of hosts.
Verse Concepts
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain [to keep it from eating],” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages [he deserves fair compensation].”
Look! The wages that you have [fraudulently] withheld from the laborers who have mowed your fields are crying out [against you for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
‘You shall not oppress or exploit your neighbor, nor rob him. You shall not withhold the wages of a hired man overnight until morning.
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.
Now to a laborer, his wages are not credited as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation [something owed to him].
And if your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondman (a slave not eligible for redemption), But as a hired servant and as a temporary resident he shall be with you; he shall serve you till the Year of Jubilee, And then he shall depart from you, he and his children with him, and shall go back to his own family and return to the possession of his fathers.
You shall not oppress or extort from a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of your strangers and sojourners who are in your land inside your towns. You shall give him his hire on the day he earns it before the sun goes down, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it; lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.
Is there not an [appointed] warfare and hard labor to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly longs for the shade and the evening shadows, and as a hireling who looks for the reward of his work,
Take no gold nor silver nor [even] copper money in your purses (belts); And do not take a provision bag or a wallet for a collection bag for your journey, nor two undergarments, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the workman deserves his support (his living, his food).
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Justice, encouraged
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.
You shall pursue justice, and only justice [that which is uncompromisingly righteous], so that you may live and take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
“Maintain justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is soon to come,
And My righteousness and justice is soon to be revealed.
To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].
Pay to all what is due: tax to whom tax is due, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, honor to whom honor.
Social duties » Masters' duties » Just dealing
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.