Bondservants and Masters
5 See 1 Pet. 2:18Bondservants,6:5 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 6; likewise for bondservant in verse 8 obey your earthly masters6:5 Or your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, [2 Cor. 11:3] with a sincere heart, [ch. 5:22]as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as See Gal. 1:10people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8 See Ps. 62:12knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, Gal. 3:28;Col. 3:11whether he is a bondservant or is free. 9 Masters, do the same to them, Lev. 25:43and stop your threatening, knowing that John 13:13;[Job 31:13-15] he who is both their Master6:9 Greek Lord and yours is in heaven, and that See Deut. 10:17there is no partiality with him.