Colossians 4:1

Colossians chapter 4 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

King James Version · 1611

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

American Standard Version · 1901

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

v.1This passage

v.2Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Deuteronomy 24:14
Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.
Matthew 23:8
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
Leviticus 19:13
Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.