Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Servants - `slaves.' To please them well - to be complaisant in everything: to have that zealous desire to gain the master's good-will which anticipates the master's wish, and does even more than is required. The reason for the frequent injunctions to slaves to subjection (Ephesians 6:5, etc.; Colossians 3:22; 1 Timothy 6:1, etc.; 1 Peter 2:18) was, that in no rank was there more danger of the spiritual equality and freedom of Christians being misunderstood than in that of slaves. It was natural for the slave who became a Christian to forget his place, and put himself on a social level with his master. Hence, the charge for each to abide in the sphere in which he was when converted (1 Corinthians 7:20-24).
Not answering again - in contradiction to the master х antilegontas (G483)] (Wahl).