1Ti 6:1-5 | ESV | STEP | Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor , so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled .

1 Timothy 6:1-5

1 ^aLet all who are under a yoke as bondservants ^{▼▼Or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, ^cso that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are ^dbrothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.

False Teachers and True Contentment

^eTeach and urge these things. 3 If anyone ^fteaches a different doctrine and does not agree with ^gthe sound ^{▼▼Or healthy} words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching ⁱthat accords with godliness, 4 ^jhe is puffed up with conceit and ^kunderstands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for ^lcontroversy and for ^mquarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people ⁿwho are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, ^oimagining that godliness is a means of gain.