Colossians 4:1

Masters must treat their servants justly and fairly, remembering they too answer to a Master in heaven. It matters because authority over others is held under the higher authority of God.

Cross-references · 21

• Eph 6:8–20because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
• Rev 17:14They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
• Deut 24:14–15Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
• Jas 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Luke 16:1–13Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
• Matt 24:48–51But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
• Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
• Lev 25:39–43If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
• Rev 19:16And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
• Luke 19:15When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.
• Neh 5:5–13We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
• Job 24:11–12They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
• Isa 58:5–9Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
• Jer 34:9–17that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
• Deut 15:12–15If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
• Lev 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
• Job 31:13–15If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Matt 23:8–9But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
• Isa 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

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