Thematic Bible: Masters'
Thematic Bible
Duty » Masters' » Of admonition
I am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.
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Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.
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We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.
Do not regard him as an enemy. Admonish him as a brother.
A divisive and dissentious man should be admonished, and after two times have nothing to do with that man.
Duty » Masters' » Neglect of
Curse Meroz, says Jehovah's angel: Curse those who live there. They did not come to help Jehovah. They did not come as soldiers to fight for him.
Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
When they asked if some group out of the tribes of Israel had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there.
Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their masters.
They have not been your servants in their kingdom! In all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them they have not turned away from their evil doing.
You should have put my money in the bank. I should have received my money back plus interest.
The unfaithful servant who knew what his master wanted and did not do it will be beaten.
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?
He that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Duty » Masters' » Of giving warning
We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.
Cry aloud! Do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram's horn. Tell my people about their rebellion and the descendants of Jacob about their sins.
Warn your relatives living in other cities about every case they bring to you, even if the case involves bloodshed or commandments, rules, or regulations derived from the law. Then your relatives will not become guilty in front of Jehovah. Otherwise, he will become angry with you and your relatives. Do this and you will not be guilty of anything.
When I tell a wicked man that he will surely die, but you do not warn him or speak out so that he can change his wicked way in order to save his life; that wicked man will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.
But if you warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.
Duty » Masters' » Prompt payment of wages
Do not oppress your neighbor and do not rob him. Do not fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.
Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.
Duty » Masters' » Just dealing
Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Duty » Masters' » Refraining from threats
You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.
Duty » Masters' » Consideration for employees
If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to rule over them with rigor
Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
Do not treat them harshly. Respect your God.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to keep back their wages
Do not oppress your neighbor and do not rob him. Do not fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.
Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.
Masters' » Should with their households » Observe the sabbath
The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it (keep it holy), as Jehovah your God has commanded you. Do all your work in six days. The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do.
Masters' » What masters should do
Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ. This should not be in the way of eye service, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from a complete heart; with goodwill doing service, as to God, and not to men. read more.
You know that whatever good thing each person does, the same shall he receive again from God, whether he be slave or free. You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.
You know that whatever good thing each person does, the same shall he receive again from God, whether he be slave or free. You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To deal with them in the fear of God
Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.
You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.
Masters' » Authority of, established
Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, respecting God.
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle master but also to the hard to please.
Masters' » Should select faithful servants
Abraham said to the senior servant of his household who was in charge of all that he owned: Take a solemn oath.
My eyes will be watching the faithful people in the land so that they may live with me. The person who lives with integrity will serve me. The one who does deceitful things will not stay in my home. The one who tells lies will not remain in my presence.
Masters' » Unjust, denounced
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To act justly
Did the one who made me in the womb make them? And did that one fashion us in the womb?
If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me
Masters' » What masters should not do
Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
Masters' » Benevolent, blessed
It should not seem hard to you when you set him free. After all he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man. Jehovah your God will bless you in whatever you do.
Masters' » Should receive faithful advice from servants
His servants went up to him and said: If the prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would have done it. Now why can you not just wash yourself, as he said, and be cured? So Naaman went to the Jordan River and dipped himself in it seven times, as Elisha had instructed. He was completely cured. His flesh became firm and healthy like that of a child.
Masters' » Bad--exemplified » Amalekite
Who is your master? Where are you from? David asked. I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite, he answered. My master left me behind three days ago when I got sick.
Masters' » Bad--exemplified » Nabal
Consider what you should do because our master and his whole household are doomed. He is such a worthless man that it is useless to talk to him.
Masters' » Masters that delicately bring up their servants from a child
The man who (carefully) brings up (pays close attention to) (nourishes) his servant from childhood will in the future have him become like his son.
Masters' » Bad--exemplified
They forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves. They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To esteem them highly, if saints
He is no longer a servant. He is more than a servant. He is a beloved brother, especially to me, but also to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To forbear threatening them
You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.
Masters' » Good--exemplified » Abraham
I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.
Masters' » Should with their households » Put away idols
Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.
Masters' » Should with their households » Worship God
After that let us go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, who answered me when I was troubled and who has been with me wherever I have gone.
Masters' » Should with their households » Serve God
If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to defraud them
Yet he has cheated me. He changed my wages ten times. However, God did not let him harm me.
Masters' » Good--exemplified » Joshua
If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'
Masters' » Good--exemplified » jacob
Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.
Masters' » Should with their households » Fear God
He was a devout man who respected God with his entire household. He gave many gifts of mercy to the people and prayed to God always.
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » To take care of them in sickness
When he heard about him he contacted Jesus through the Jewish elders. He asked him to come and save his servant.
Intercessory prayer » Should be offered up for » Masters'
He said: O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today. Show loving-kindness to my master Abraham. I am standing by the spring. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. Let there be the girl to whom I say: 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers: 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' May she be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loving-kindness to my master.