Charles Spurgeon Commentary Colossians 4

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.

See how he keeps putting that in – Be ye thankful – with thanksgiving. Why, that is the oil that makes the machinery go round without its causing obstruction. May we have much of that thanksgiving.

Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christians that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;—

I sometimes think that the good men who chopped the Bible up into chapters—for it is not in chapters in the original—must have hoped that we would not read this message to the masters, as he had put it in another chapter.

But I never like to read about the servants without also reading about the masters.

There is six for one, and half-a-dozen for the other; and, as is usual, in the Scriptures, there are balanced duties.

If there is an exhortation to children, there is generally one to parents close by; and if there is a word to wives, there is one for husbands too.

So let us read that verse: Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;—