Ephesians 6:9

Masters must treat their servants well, without threats, knowing both share the same Master in heaven who shows no partiality. Authority is accountable to God.

Cross-references · 37

• Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
• Col 3:25Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
• Rom 2:11For God does not show favoritism.
• Job 31:13–15If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
• Deut 10:17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
• Luke 6:31Do to others as you would have them do to you.
• Matt 7:12In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
• 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
• Lev 25:39–46If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
• Jas 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• John 13:13You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
• 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 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
• Ps 140:12I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
• Dan 3:6And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
• 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.
• Amos 8:4–7Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• Matt 24:48But 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.
• Matt 24:51Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 12:45–46But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
• Neh 5:5We 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.”
• Isa 58:3–6“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.
• Matt 22:10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
• Dan 3:15Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
• Matt 22:8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
• Isa 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
• Eph 6:5–7Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
• 1 Cor 7:22For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
• Dan 5:19–20Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.
• Deut 15:11–16For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
• Lev 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
• Job 24:10–12Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
• 1 Sam 15:17And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
• Phil 2:10–11that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
• Neh 5:8–9and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

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