Servants (ο οικετα). Note article with the class as with ανδρες (3:7), though not with γυναικες (3:1). Οικετης, old word from οικο…

Servants, be subject to your masters. For the duty commanded here, see the notes on Ephesians 6:5 and following. The Greek word used here …

Servants—This is the second division of the second prudential rule: social subordination. This word is not the same as is used by …

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and g…

It is difficult for twentieth-century Christians to understand the slavery of the ancient world. During the time of the NT writings, slavery was no…

Servants, be subject. Although this is a particular admonition, it is connected with what has gone before, as well as the other things tha…

Servants, be subject to your masters
This was another notion of the Jews, that because they were the seed of Abraham…

Servants in those days were generally slaves and had heathen masters, who often treated them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to…