1 Timothy 6:1

Tree of Life Version

Let all who are under the yoke as slaves consider their own masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.

Cross References

Genesis 16:9

The angel of Adonai said, “Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hand.”

Genesis 24:12

“Adonai, the God of Abraham my master,” he said, “please make something happen before me today, and show loyalty to Abraham my master.

Genesis 24:2

Then Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household who managed everything that belonged to him, “Now put your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:27

and he said, “Blessed be Adonai, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His loyalty and His truth toward my master. As for me, Adonai has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because by this deed you have made the enemies of Adonai greatly blaspheme, so even the child born to you will surely die.”

2 Kings 5:13

But his servants approached him and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he told you only to ‘Wash and be clean’?”

Nehemiah 9:5

The Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up! Bless Adonai your God, from everlasting to everlasting! May Your glorious Name be blessed; may it be 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, but you showed them no mercy. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.

Isaiah 52:5

“Now therefore, what do I have here?” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “My people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail” —it is Adonai’s declaration— “and My Name is continually blasphemed all day long.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is not this the fast I choose: to release the bonds of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to tear off every yoke?

Ezekiel 36:20

Wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy Name, since it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Adonai, yet they had to leave His land.’

Ezekiel 36:23

I will sanctify My great Name, which has been profaned among the nations—which you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am Adonai’”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“‘when I am sanctified in you before their eyes.’”

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. So if I am Father, where is My honor? If I am Master, where is My reverence?”—says Adonai-Tzva’ot—“you, kohanim who despise My Name!” But you say, “How did we despise Your Name?”

Matthew 11:30

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Matthew 11:9

Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, even more than a prophet.

Luke 17:1

Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “Stumbling blocks are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom they come!

Acts 10:22

And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well-spoken of by all the Jewish people, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Acts 10:7

When the angel speaking to him had left, he called two of his servants and a soldier from among those attached to his command.

Acts 15:10

Why then do you put God to the test by putting a yoke on 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 slandered among the nations because of you.”

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense either to Jewish or Greek people or to God’s community—

Galatians 5:1

For freedom, Messiah set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger widows to get married, have children, manage a household, and give no opportunity to the enemy for slander.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, managing their household, kind, submitted to their own husbands, so that God’s word may not be dishonored.

1 Peter 2:12

Keep your conduct honorable among the Gentiles. Then while they speak against you as evildoers, they may—from noticing your good deeds—glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

yet with humility and reverence—keeping a clear conscience so that, whatever you are accused of, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Messiah may be put to shame.