Charles Spurgeon Commentary Colossians 4:1

"Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven." — Colossians 4:1 (ASV)

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;—