Thematic Bible: What masters should do

as for you, masters, give to your servants what is just and suitable: considering that you also have a master in heaven. Verse Conceptsethics, personalMen PleasersBeing FairMastersReward, HumanServants, Working Conditions OfSlavery, In NtWagesWork, And RedemptionMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployersSlavesslaveryfairness

Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ: not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God: serve them with affection, as if it was to the Lord, read more.
and not to men: considering that whatever good any man doth, he shall be rewarded for it by the Lord, whether he be a slave or free. and you masters have a just regard to them, by softning your authority: knowing that both their and your master is in heaven, where there is no respect of persons with him.