Colossians 4:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ Masters, give your servants what is righteous and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in the heavens.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ MASTERS, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that also you have a Master in heaven. [Lev. 25:43, 53.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Common English Bible

¹ Masters, be just and fair to your slaves, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ You masters, supply your servants with what is just and equitable, knowing that you, too, have a Master in heaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Colossians 4:1 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.

Isaiah 58:3

They say, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’ ”Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers.

Leviticus 19:13

‘Do not oppress your neighbour or rob him. The wages of him who is hired is not to remain with you all night until morning.

Malachi 3:5

“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה of hosts.

Matthew 20:4

and said to them, ‘You too go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I shall give you.’ And they went.

Luke 19:15

“And it came to be, when he came back, having received the reign, that he sent for these servants to whom he had given the silver, in order to know what each had gained by trading.

James 2:13

For the judgment is without compassion to the one who has shown no compassion. And compassion boasts over judgment.

James 5:4

See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of יהוה of hosts.

Revelation 17:14

“They shall fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Master of masters and Sovereign of sovereigns. And those with Him are called, and chosen, and trustworthy.”

Revelation 19:16

And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written: SOVEREIGN OF SOVEREIGNS AND MASTER OF MASTERS.