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.

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• Acts 10:34Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
• Col 3:25But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
• Rom 2:11For there is no partiality with God.
• Job 31:13–15“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
• Deut 10:17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.
• Luke 6:31“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
• Matt 7:12Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
• 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• Lev 25:39–46“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• John 13:13You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.
• Deut 24:14–15You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
• Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
• Ps 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
• Dan 3:6and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Amos 8:4–7Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Matt 24:48But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
• Matt 24:51and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
• Luke 12:45–46But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
• Neh 5:5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
• Isa 58:3–6‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
• Matt 22:10Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
• Dan 3:15Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good: but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
• Matt 22:8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.
• Isa 47:6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
• Eph 6:5–7Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
• 1 Cor 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
• Dan 5:19–20and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
• Deut 15:11–16For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
• Lev 19:13“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
• Job 24:10–12So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
• 1 Sam 15:17Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
• Phil 2:10–11that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
• Neh 5:8–9I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

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