Masters
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
26 sections
- Authority of, Established
- Bad: Amalekite
- Bad: Egyptians
- Bad: Nabal
- Benevolent, Blessed
- Duty of, Toward Servants: Not to Defraud Them
- Duty of, Toward Servants: Not to Keep Back Their Wages
- Duty of, Toward Servants: Not to Rule Over Them with Rigour
- Duty of, Toward Servants: To Act Justly
- Duty of, Toward Servants: To Deal with Them in the Fear of God
- Duty of, Toward Servants: To Esteem Them Highly, If Saints
- Duty of, Toward Servants: To Forbear Threatening Them
- Duty of, Toward Servants: To Take Care of Them in Sickness
- Good: Abraham
- Good: Centurion
- Good: Cornelius
- Good: Jacob
- Good: Joshua
- should Receive Faithful Advice from Servants
- should Select Faithful Servants
- Should, with Their Households: Fear God
- Should, with Their Households: Observe the Sabbath
- Should, with Their Households: Put Away Idols
- Should, with Their Households: Serve God
- Should, with Their Households: Worship God
- Unjust, Denounced
Authority of, Established
- Colossians 3:22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
- 1 Peter 2:18 Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.
Bad: Amalekite
- 1 Samuel 30:13 Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
Bad: Egyptians
- Exodus 1:13–14 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly …
Bad: Nabal
- 1 Samuel 25:17 Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
Benevolent, Blessed
- Deuteronomy 15:18 Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
Duty of, Toward Servants: Not to Defraud Them
- Genesis 31:7 And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Duty of, Toward Servants: Not to Keep Back Their Wages
- Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Deuteronomy 24:15 You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Duty of, Toward Servants: Not to Rule Over Them with Rigour
- Leviticus 25:43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
- Deuteronomy 24:14 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Duty of, Toward Servants: To Act Justly
- Job 31:13 If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
- Job 31:15 Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
- Colossians 4:1 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Duty of, Toward Servants: To Deal with Them in the Fear of God
- Ephesians 6:9 And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
- Colossians 4:1 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Duty of, Toward Servants: To Esteem Them Highly, If Saints
- Philemon 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.
Duty of, Toward Servants: To Forbear Threatening Them
- Ephesians 6:9 And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
Duty of, Toward Servants: To Take Care of Them in Sickness
- Luke 7:3 When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask Him to come and heal his servant.
Good: Abraham
- Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
Good: Centurion
- Luke 7:2–3 There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die. …
Good: Cornelius
- Acts 10:2 He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.
Good: Jacob
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Good: Joshua
- Joshua 24:15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are …
should Receive Faithful Advice from Servants
- 2 Kings 5:13–14 Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?” …
should Select Faithful Servants
- Genesis 24:2 So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
- Psalm 101:6–7 My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me. …
Should, with Their Households: Fear God
- Acts 10:2 He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.
Should, with Their Households: Observe the Sabbath
- Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 5:12–14 Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. …
Should, with Their Households: Put Away Idols
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Should, with Their Households: Serve God
- Joshua 24:15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are …
Should, with Their Households: Worship God
- Genesis 35:3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Unjust, Denounced
- Jeremiah 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- James 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.