Thematic Bible: Masters'
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Duty » Masters' » Of admonition
Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that [you] yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.
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I am not writing these [things] to shame you, but admonishing [you] as my dear children.
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And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, [and] spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,
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And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all [people].
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And do not consider [him] as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.
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Reject a divisive person after a first and second admonition,
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Duty » Masters' » Neglect of
'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.'
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And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
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They asked, "Which one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?" And behold, no one came from Jabesh-gilead to the camp, to the assembly.
{Next to them} the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord.
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And in their kingdom and in the greatness you gave to them, and in the wide and fertile land that you gave before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their evil deeds.
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Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and [when I] returned I would have gotten back [what was] mine with interest!
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And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.
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What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?
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Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.
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Duty » Masters' » Of giving warning
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all [people].
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"Call with [the] throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like trumpet, and declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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Any legal dispute that comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities concerning bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, and justice, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before Yahweh, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you must do that you do not incur guilt.
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{When I say} to the wicked, 'Surely you will die,' and you do not warn him and you do not speak to warn [the] wicked from his wicked way {so that he may live}, that wicked [person] will die because of his guilt, and from your hand I will seek his blood.
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But, you, if you warn [the] wicked from his way, to turn from it, and {he does not turn} from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life.
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Duty » Masters' » Prompt payment of wages
" 'You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob [him]; a hired worker's wage you shall not {withhold} overnight until morning.
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On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down}, because [he is] poor and {his life depends on it}; [do this] so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.
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Duty » Masters' » Just dealing
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
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Duty » Masters' » Refraining from threats
And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
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Duty » Masters' » Consideration for employees
"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me, then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to rule over them with rigor
"You shall not exploit a hired worker, [who is] needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from [among] your aliens who are in your land [and] in your {towns}.
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You shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but you shall revere your God.
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Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to keep back their wages
" 'You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob [him]; a hired worker's wage you shall not {withhold} overnight until morning.
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On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down}, because [he is] poor and {his life depends on it}; [do this] so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.
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Masters' » Should with their households » Observe the sabbath
But the seventh day [is] a Sabbath for Yahweh your God; you will not do any work--you or your son or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your animal, or your alien who [is] in your gates--
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'Observe the {Sabbath day} to make it holy, [just] as Yahweh your God has commanded you. Six days you shall work, and you shall do all [of] your work, but the seventh day [is] Sabbath unto Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work, or your son, or your daughter, or your slave, or your slave woman, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your domestic animals, or your [resident] alien who [is] in your {towns}, so that your slave and your slave woman may rest as you [rest].
Masters' » What masters should do
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
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Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart, serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people, read more.
[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To deal with them in the fear of God
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
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And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
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Masters' » Authority of, established
Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
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Domestic slaves, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those [who are] good and gentle, but also to those [who are] unjust.
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Masters' » Should select faithful servants
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh
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My eyes [will be] on [the] faithful of [the] land, that [they may] live with me. [He who] walks in [the] way of integrity, he shall minister to me. There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.
Masters' » Unjust, denounced
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
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Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To act justly
Did not he [who] made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
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"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,
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Masters' » What masters should not do
"You shall not exploit a hired worker, [who is] needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from [among] your aliens who are in your land [and] in your {towns}.
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Masters' » Benevolent, blessed
It shall not be hard in your eyes {when you send him forth free}, because for six years he has served you [worth] twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you {in whatever you will do}.
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Masters' » Should receive faithful advice from servants
But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, [if] the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done [it]? [Why not] even when he says to you, 'Wash and you shall be clean'?" So he went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh returned as the flesh of a small boy, and he was clean.
Masters' » Bad--exemplified » Amalekite
Then David said to him, "{To whom do you belong}, and from where [are] you? The young man said, "I am an Egyptian young man, a servant of an Amalekite man, but my master abandoned me because I became ill three days ago.
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Masters' » Bad--exemplified » Nabal
And so then, know and {consider} what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he [is such] {a wicked man}, {nobody can reason with him}!"
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Masters' » Masters that delicately bring up their servants from a child
He who pampers his servant from childhood, {arrogance will be his end}.
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Masters' » Bad--exemplified
And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the {Israelites} to work. And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all [sorts] of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To esteem them highly, if saints
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To forbear threatening them
And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
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Masters' » Good--exemplified » Abraham
For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."
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Masters' » Should with their households » Put away idols
Then Jacob said to his household and to all who [were] with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that [are] in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments.
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Masters' » Should with their households » Worship God
Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone."
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Masters' » Should with their households » Serve God
But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."
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Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to defraud them
and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.
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Masters' » Good--exemplified » Joshua
But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."
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Masters' » Good--exemplified » jacob
Then Jacob said to his household and to all who [were] with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that [are] in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments.
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Masters' » Should with their households » Fear God
devout and fearing God together with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people and praying to God {continually}.
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Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To take care of them in sickness
So [when he] heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come [and] cure his slave.
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Intercessory prayer » Should be offered up for » Masters'
And he said, "O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham. Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are going out to draw water. And let it be [that] the girl to whom I shall say, 'Please, offer your jar that I may drink' and [who] says, 'Drink--and I will also water your camels,' she [is the one] you have chosen for your servant, for Isaac. By her I will know that you have shown loyal love to my master."