Ephesians 6:9

Weymouth NT

And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely earthly distinctions there are none with Him.

Cross References

Matthew 22:10

»So they went out into the roads and gathered together all they could find, both bad and good, and the banqueting hall was filled with guests.«

Matthew 22:8

Then he said to his servants, »`The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were unworthy of it.

Matthew 24:48

But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, `My master is a long time in coming,'

Matthew 24:51

he will treat him with the utmost severity and assign him a place among the hypocrites: there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 7:12

Everything, therefore, be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.

Luke 6:31

And behave to your fellow men just as you would have them behave to you.

John 13:13

You call me `The Rabbi' and `The Master,' and rightly so, for such I am.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter began to speak. »I clearly see,« he said, »that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;

Romans 2:11

For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ– their Lord as well as ours.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.

Colossians 3:25

The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves, knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven.

James 2:13

For he who shows no mercy will have judgement given against him without mercy; but mercy triumphs over judgement.

James 2:8

If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says »You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself,« you are acting rightly.

James 5:4

I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops –pay which you are keeping back– is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven.