Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

Masters, [ kuriois (G2962)] - implying rule: despotes would imply absolute tyranny. (See Ephesians 6:5)

Eye-service - Greek, 'in eye-services.' To fear God is, when, though none see, we do no evil; but if we do, it is not God, but men, whom we fear.

Singleness - without duplicity [ haploteeti (G572), 'simplicity'].

Fearing God. So C. But 'Aleph (') A B Delta G read 'the Lord.'

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