Gen 30:29, 31:38-42, Eph 6:5-8, Col 3:22-25, Tit 2:9-10, 1Pe 2:18 | ESV | STEP | Jacob said to him, You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.

s[See ver. 20 above]

u ver. 17

v[Philem. 16]

w[Eph. 6:8]

x[1 Cor. 7:22]

ySee 1 Pet. 2:18

aa[Col. 3:22]

ab[1 Tim. 3:11]

ac Matt. 5:16; Phil. 2:15

ad Eph. 6:5; Col. 3:22; 1 Tim. 6:1; Titus 2:9

Genesis 30:29

29 Jacob said to him, ^a“You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.

Genesis 31:38-42

38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. ^bFrom my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. ^cI served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^dyou have changed my wages ten times. 42 ^eIf the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the ^fFear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^gGod saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and ^hrebuked you last night.”

Ephesians 6:5-8

Bondservants and Masters

5 ⁱBondservants, ^{▼▼Or slaves; also verse 6 (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} obey your earthly masters ^{▼▼Or your masters according to the flesh} with fear and trembling, ^lwith a sincere heart, ^mas you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as ⁿpeople-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8 ^oknowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, ^pwhether he is a bondservant ^{▼▼Or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} or is free.

Colossians 3:22-25

22 Bondservants, ^{▼▼Or Slaves; also 4:1 (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} obey ^sin everything those who are your earthly masters, ^{▼▼Or your masters according to the flesh} not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 ^uWhatever you do, work heartily, ^vas for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord ^wyou will receive the inheritance as your reward. ^xYou are serving the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Titus 2:9-10

9 ^yBondservants ^{▼▼Or Slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} are to be submissive to their own masters ^aain everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, 10 not pilfering, ^abbut showing all good faith, ^acso that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

1 Peter 2:18

18 ^adServants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.