1 Timothy 6:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be defamed.

Cross References

Genesis 16:9

The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”

Genesis 24:12

And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, grant me success today, I pray thee, and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24:2

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:27

and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.”

2 Samuel 12:14

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child that is born to you shall die.”

2 Kings 5:13

But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

Nehemiah 9:5

Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise.”

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore what have I here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the Lord, and continually all the day my name is despised.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’

Ezekiel 36:23

And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised thy name?’

Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:9

Why then did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Luke 17:1

And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!

Acts 10:22

And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to hear what you have to say.”

Acts 10:7

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those that waited on him,

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

and keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.