Pro 29:21 | MHM | STEP | The Dangers of Over-Indulging Servants This section gives advice about how masters should treat their servants. It warns that being too kind or generous to a servant, and making their life too easy, can lead to problems. When servants are spoiled, they may forget their place and become proud or demanding. The passage also uses this lesson to remind us not to pamper our own bodies too much, because this can cause trouble in the end. v. 21 : The verse says, He who pampers his servant from childhood will have him as a son in the end . This means that if a master is too soft and gives a servant everything he wants, the servant may start to think he is equal to his master. He may become bold and act like he deserves special treatment, even trying to take over the master's position. Instead, masters should be fair—giving servants what is right, but not spoiling them. In the same way, if we always give our bodies everything they want, our bodies will start to rule over us, instead of serving us as they should.

‏ Proverbs 29:21

The Dangers of Over-Indulging Servants

This section gives advice about how masters should treat their servants. It warns that being too kind or generous to a servant, and making their life too easy, can lead to problems. When servants are spoiled, they may forget their place and become proud or demanding. The passage also uses this lesson to remind us not to pamper our own bodies too much, because this can cause trouble in the end.

v. 21: The verse says, He who pampers his servant from childhood will have him as a son in the end . This means that if a master is too soft and gives a servant everything he wants, the servant may start to think he is equal to his master. He may become bold and act like he deserves special treatment, even trying to take over the master's position. Instead, masters should be fair—giving servants what is right, but not spoiling them. In the same way, if we always give our bodies everything they want, our bodies will start to rule over us, instead of serving us as they should.