Not exact matches
English Standard Version (© 2001)
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with fear and trembling,
with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Weymouth New Testament
Slaves, be obedient to your earthly
masters,
with respect and eager anxiety to please and
with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.
International Standard Version (© 2008)
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with fear, trembling, and sincerity, as when you obey the Messiah.
New American Standard Bible (© 1995)
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your
masters according to the flesh,
with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;
Ephesians 6:5 New International Version (© 1984)
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with respect and fear, and
with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
GOD»S WORD ® Translation (© 1995)
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with proper respect.
New Living Translation (© 2007)
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with deep respect and fear.
Peter lived in a time when Rome was in power, and to tell Christian
slaves to obey their
masters had absolutely nothing to do
with him thinking it natural.
Slavery goes back to Abraham and Chosen Ones received a 450 year lesson on what it is like to be a
slave with a Egyptian barbaric
master.
39:29 — Allah puts forth a similitude: a (
slave) man belonging to many partners (like those who worship others along
with Allah) disputing
with one another, and a (
slave) man belonging entirely to one
master, (like those who worship Allah Alone).
Ephesians 6:5 - 9 (NRSV)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as
slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the
slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
They asked who could question the Word of God when it said, «
slaves, obey your earthly
masters with fear and trembling» (Ephesians 6:5), or «tell
slaves to be submissive to their
masters and to give satisfaction in every respect» (Titus 2:9).
Peter tried to defend his
Master with a sword, and he cut off the ear of the high priest's
slave.
I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that
with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between
slaves and
masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that
slaves and
masters, wives and husbands were charged
with submitting «one to another»
with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself
with women he called «co-workers.»
According to the Bible God hated more than he loved, and the crap that is the 1st few books of the old testament, which s barbaric and evil, not only to those men that are an abombanation, but those that not only eat pork, but touch a football, shellfish, work on the sabbath, blasphamy,
slaves who do nt allow there
master to sleep
with there wifes / daughters, and those that dared not idolise him because he is a jealous and vengeful God!
All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for
slaves to obey their
masters,
with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.
To my surprise, the preceding paragraph had nothing to do
with the relationship between men and women, but was instead about the relationship between
masters and
slaves!
You think a
slave being forced to marry and have s - x
with her
master isn't really r - pe either right?
Surely it is
with this understanding of Jesus» call that we are to read such difficult biblical passages as Colossians 3:22, which bids
slaves be obedient to their
masters, as though they were obeying Christ himself.
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with deep respect and fear.
It is strange to see us all sitting together at the sacred meal —
master breaking bread
with his
slave, a Jew sharing a joke
with a former pagan priest, a husband pouring wine for his wife, a zealot debating politics
with a tax collector — but this is what makes us different; it's what makes us Christians.
Why is «wives submit to your husbands» considered by many Christian to be a timeless divine mandate, when in every New Testament occurrence, that phrase is either preceded or followed by instructions that «
slaves obey your
masters,» at least once
with the phrase «in the same way» between them?!
Onesimus, a runaway
slave with whom Paul had become acquainted at Rome, is here commended to his
master Philemon
with the hope expressed «for love's sake» that Philemon will receive him «no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved... both in the flesh and in the Lord.»
What is in the
masters interest, the value of the
slave as an asset or the
master being sideways
with his god are not germane to the discussion.
In fact after a certain period of time, the
master has to release his
slave, but often the
slave would choose continuing
with his
master... The
slave would become part of the family.
«
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with respect and fear, and
with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.»
Even without the known meaning of «pais», we all know what Roman men did
with some of their younger male
slaves and it's not too hard to figure out a
slave master isn't going to be so desperate to save some
slave that could easily be replaced unless he was in love.
Is it any wonder that Peter and Paul's version of the Household Codes broke
with tradition by instructing men and women,
slaves and
masters to «submit one to another.»
Their design editor has explained that he wanted to associate the magazine
with the ethic of
slave resistance, not just the revolt but also the pre-war period when «
slaves had effectively instituted their own policy of poisoning damn - near everything that breathed...
master, the mistress and the rest of the f — ing plantation Brady Bunch.»
There was a time when Christ following Bible believers defended slavery
with the Bible (no where does it say not to own
slaves, and in fact, Paul even provides some moral guidelines for
masters as well as
slaves, urging them to be obedient.
The Jews have ALWAYS proclaimed themselves the
master race, chosen to be god's own people
with all others put on the Earth to serve as
slaves to them.
«
Slaves, accept the authority of your
masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh.»
In other cases the NRSV translators have hit on brilliant phrasing: «super-apostles» (for «superlative apostles» — II Cor: 11:5); or «to be our way of life» (for «that we should walk in them» — Eph 2:10) Advice for
slaves has been clarified, now that there is fortunately no need for such advice: obey your earthly
master «not only while being watched» (RSV: «not in the way of eye - service» — Eph 6:6) But the prize for straight talk goes to Galatians 5:12: «I wish those who unsettle you [
with the demand that they be circumcised] would castrate themselves» (RSV: «mutilate»)
(Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with deep respect and fear.
In other words, this passage reads to limit unnecessary or gratuitous violence, but not as a per se prohibition of violence against a
slave (particularly in light of «he is both their
Master and yours» directly and indirectly engaging in violence to punish bad behavior and exact compliance
with authority).
But Apollonius addressed him
with anger, as a
master might a shifty, rascally, and shameless
slave and so on, and he ordered him to quit the young man and show by a visible sign that he had done so.
jesus told
masters to beat
slaves that disobey «
with many stripes.»
Exodus 21:20 = > «
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with deep respect and fear...».
But if the
slave plainly says, «I love my
master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,» then his
master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his
master shall bore his ear through
with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.
Then you go on to quote Deuteronomy 15 «If a
slave has taken refuge
with you, do not hand them over to their
master.
Ephesians 6:5
Slaves, obey your earthly
masters with respect and fear, and
with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
Right after the apostle Paul encouraged Ephesian wives to submit to their husbands as they would to Christ, and Ephesian husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, he instructed Ephesian
slaves to «obey your earthly
masters with respect and fear, and
with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ» (Ephesians 6:5).
Masters, provide your
slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a
Master in heaven.
3:6 - 12) and the injunction to
slaves to obey their
masters with due docility (Col. 3:22; Eph.
For those who follow Jesus, authority should be surrendered — and shared — willingly,
with the humility and love of Jesus... or else we miss the once radical teaching that
slaves and
masters, parents and children, husbands and wives, rich and poor, healthy and sick, should «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.»
But, we so - called Negroes, after 400 years of masterful brainwashing by the
slave master, picture «our God»
with the same blond hair, pale skin, and cold blue eyes of our murderous
slave master.
I try to achieve a synthesis
with them rather then having one or the other play the part of
master and
slave.
The religious use of biblical language about
masters and servants and
slaves and redemption and bought
with a price and bondservant and lord and service and unquestioning obedience, etcetera, all come from an age when slavery was an assumed, acceptable and even enviable way of life.
Some
slaves once they fulfilled thier terms did not want to leave thier
masters, if they were treated so badly, why would they wish to stay
with thier
masters until they died.
But the Jews were required every day to have dealings
with the Romans, who treated them as a conquered people and managed them as a
master over
slaves.