Colossians 3:18–4:1

Advice for Wives and Husbands, Parents and Children, Slaves and Masters

¹⁸Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority.This is appropriate behavior for the Lord’s people. ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be harsh with them. 

²⁰Children, always obey your parents. This is pleasing to the Lord. ²¹Fathers, don’t make your children resentful, or they will become discouraged. 

²²Slaves, always obey your earthly masters. Don’t obey them only while you’re being watched, as if you merely wanted to please people. Be sincere in your motives out of respect for your real master. ²³Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly as though you were working for your real master and not merely for humans. ²⁴You know that your real master will give you an inheritance as your reward. It is Christ, your real master, whom you are serving. ²⁵The person who does wrong will be paid back for the wrong he has done. God does not play favorites. 

4TH CHAPTER

¹Masters, be just and fair to your slaves because you know that you also have a master in heaven.