Colossians 4:1
Modern Translations
New International Version
Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

New Living Translation
Masters, be just and fair to your slaves. Remember that you also have a Master—in heaven.

English Standard Version
Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Berean Study Bible
Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

New American Standard Bible
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

NASB 1995
Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

NASB 1977
Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

Amplified Bible
Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Christian Standard Bible
Masters, deal with your slaves justly and fairly, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

Contemporary English Version
Slave owners, be fair and honest with your slaves. Don't forget that you have a Master in heaven.

Good News Translation
Masters, be fair and just in the way you treat your slaves. Remember that you too have a Master in heaven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Masters, be just and fair to your slaves because you know that you also have a master in heaven.

International Standard Version
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

NET Bible
Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

New King James Version
Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

King James 2000 Bible
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

New Heart English Bible
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

World English Bible
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

American King James Version
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

American Standard Version
Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

A Faithful Version
Masters, give that which is just and equal to your servants, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Darby Bible Translation
Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in [the] heavens.

English Revised Version
Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Ye masters, doe vnto your seruants, that which is iust, and equall, knowing that ye also haue a master in heauen.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Maisters, do vnto your seruauntes that which is iust & equall, knowyng that ye also haue a maister in heauen.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Ye masters, do vnto youre seruauntes that which is iust and equall, and knowe, yt ye also haue a master in heauen.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Ye masters do vnto youre servauntes that which is iust and egall seinge ye knowe that ye also have a master in heven.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The masters: give that which is righteous and equal to the servants, having known that you also have a Master in the heavens.

Berean Literal Bible
Masters, give to the slaves that which is righteous and that which is equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Smith's Literal Translation
Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Masters, provide that which is just and that which equal to your bond-slaves, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You masters, supply your servants with what is just and equitable, knowing that you, too, have a Master in heaven.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Masters, practice equality and justice with your Servants and be aware that you also have a Master in Heaven.

Lamsa Bible
MASTERS, do to your servants that which is just and fair; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Masters, give to your servants what is just and equal, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

Godbey New Testament
Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Haweis New Testament
MASTERS, afford to your servants that which is just, and an equivalent, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Mace New Testament
as for you, masters, give to your servants what is just and suitable: considering that you also have a master in heaven.

Weymouth New Testament
Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves, knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven.

Worrell New Testament
Masters, render justice and equity to your servants, knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven.

Worsley New Testament
and ye masters, render to your servants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
















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