¹⁸Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.^j ¹⁹Husbands,^k love your wives^l and don’t be bitter^m toward them. ²⁰Children,ⁿ obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. ²¹Fathers,^o do not exasperate^p your children, so that they won’t become discouraged. ²²Slaves, obey your human^q masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.^r ²³Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people,^s ²⁴knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵For the wrongdoer^t will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.

4Masters,^u deal with your slaves justly and fairly, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

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Colossians 3:23: Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men…

Cross references

j Eph 5:22–6:9
k 1Pt 3:1
l Eph 5:25; 1Pt 3:1
m Rv 8:11; 10:9–10
n Gn 3:16; Lv 10:14; Dt 31:12; Ps 37:25; Pr 20:7; Lk 1:7; Ac 2:39; Heb 2:13
o Ps 103:13; Eph 6:4; Heb 11:23
p 2Co 9:2
q Rm 1:3; 4:1; 8:4–5,12–13; 9:3,5; 1Co 1:26; 10:18; 2Co 1:17; 5:16; 10:2–3; 11:18; Gl 4:23,29; Eph 6:5
r Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7
s Eph 6:7
t Rv 2:11
u Col 3:22