¹⁸Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. ²⁰Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord. ²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged. ²²Slaves, obey your human^d masters in everything, not while being watched^e, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. ²³Whatever you do, accomplish it from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people, ²⁴because you^* know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve^f the Lord Christ. ²⁵For the one who does wrong will receive back whatever wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

4Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also 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…

Footnotes

dLiterally “according to the flesh”
eLiterally “with eye-service”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
fOr “You serve”; the same Greek verb form can be understood as either imperative (“serve”) or indicative (“you serve”), so that commentators and Bible translations differ