1 Timothy 6:2

Servants with believing masters must not take them lightly because they are brothers, but serve them all the more since fellow believers benefit. Shared faith deepens, rather than dissolves, faithful service.

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• Col 4:1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
• 1 Tim 4:11Command and teach these things.
• Gen 16:4–5He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
• Col 3:11–12where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• Eph 1:15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
• 1 Tim 5:1Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
• Eph 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Gal 3:26–29For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
• 2 Pet 2:10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
• Titus 2:15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
• Heb 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
• Col 1:2to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
• Num 16:3They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
• Eph 3:6that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
• 1 Pet 5:1Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Phlm 1:10–16I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
• Titus 2:1But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
• Col 1:4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• Matt 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
• Matt 23:8But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Joel 2:28“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
• Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
• Phlm 1:5–7hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

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