Servants Δουλοι, bond-servants; or he may include also those that were in the station of hired servants; be obedient to your masters For the gospel does not cancel the civil rights of mankind; according to the flesh That is, who have the command of your bodies, but not of your souls and consciences. Or, the expression may mean, who are your masters according to the present state of things: hereafter the servant will be free from his master; with fear and trembling A proverbial expression, implying the utmost care and diligence; in singleness of heart With a single eye to the providence and will of God; as unto Christ With that sincerity and uniformity of conduct, which a regard to the honour of Christ, and his all-seeing eye, will require and produce. Not with eye- service Serving your masters better when under their eye than at other times; as mere men-pleasers Persons who have no regard to the pleasing of God; but as the servants of Christ As those that desire to approve themselves his faithful servants; doing the will of God from the heart Performing that duty to your masters which God requires of you; or doing whatever you do as the will of God, and with your might. With good-will doing service Not with reluctance, but cheerfully, and from a principle of love to them and their concerns; as to the Lord, and not to men Regarding him more than men, and making every action of common life a sacrifice to God, by having an eye to him in all things, even as if you had no other master. Knowing that whatsoever good thing Whether for kind or degree; any man doth Though never so poor and mean, in one station of life or another; the same shall he receive of the Lord That is, a full and adequate recompense; whether he be bond or free A slave or a free-man; whether he be the meanest servant or the greatest prince. For God is the universal guardian and protector of his people, and esteems men, not according to their stations in the world, but according to their behaviour in those stations, whether high or low.
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Ephesians 6:5-8
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.