Believers Believing Beloved Benefit Better Brethren Brothers Dear Despise Disrespectful Duties Exhort Exhorting Faith Faithful Friends Ground Instead Less Masters Orders Partake Partakers Partaking Preach Principles Profit Rather Readily Ready Rendered Respect Serve Service Slight Stedfast Subjection Teach Teaching Towards Urge Wanting Willingly Working
6:2 {3} And they that have believing masters, let them not despise [them], because they are brethren; but rather do [them] service, because they are faithful and beloved, {a} partakers of the benefit. {4} These things teach and exhort.
(3) The second rule: let not servants that have come to the faith, and have also masters of the same profession and religion, abuse the name of brotherhood, but let them so much the rather obey them.
(a) Let this be sufficient, that with regard to those things which pertain to everlasting life, they are partakers of the same good will and love of God, as their masters themselves are.
(4) A general conclusion, that these things ought not only to be simply taught, but must with exhortations be diligently learned by them.
6:2 They that have believing masters, let them not despise [them]. Converted slaves must not despise their masters,
because they are brethren. Because in the church they are equal.
Rather, do [them] service. Rather, they must serve them better, because they are beloved brethren, and partakers of the benefit of their service.
6:2 Let them not despise them - Pay them the less honour or obedience. Because they are brethren - And in that respect on a level with them. They that live in a religious community know the danger of this; and that greater grace is requisite to bear with the faults of a brother, than of an infidel, or man of the world. But rather do them service - Serve them so much the more diligently. Because they are joint partakers of the great benefit - Salvation. These things - Paul, the aged, gives young Timotheus a charge to dwell upon practical holiness. Less experienced teachers are apt to neglect the superstructure, whilst they lay the foundation; but of so great importance did St. Paul see it to enforce obedience to Christ, as well as to preach faith in his blood, that, after strongly urging the life of faith on professors, he even adds another charge for the strict observance of it.
6:1-5 Christians were not to suppose that religious knowledge, or Christian privileges, gave them any right to despise heathen masters, or to disobey lawful commands, or to expose their faults to others. And such as enjoyed the privilege of living with believing masters, were not to withhold due respect and reverence, because they were equal in respect to religious privileges, but were to serve with double diligence and cheerfulness, because of their faith in Christ, and as partakers of his free salvation. We are not to consent to any words as wholesome, except the words of our Lord Jesus Christ; to these we must give unfeigned consent. Commonly those are most proud who know least; for they do not know themselves. Hence come envy, strife, railings, evil-surmisings, disputes that are all subtlety, and of no solidity, between men of corrupt and carnal minds, ignorant of the truth and its sanctifying power, and seeking their worldly advantage.
Believing Beloved Benefit Despise Duties Exhort Faithful Instead Masters Partake Partakers Preach Principles Profit Rather Rendered Respect Serve Service Show Teach Towards Urge Wanting Willingly
Believing Beloved Benefit Despise Duties Exhort Faithful Instead Masters Partake Partakers Preach Principles Profit Rather Rendered Respect Serve Service Show Teach Towards Urge Wanting Willingly
