Colossians 3:25

But he that doeth wrong The spiritual emancipation of the slave writes the law of duty on his heart. The case of Onesimus was surely in the Apostle's mind throughout this passage.

shall receive from the Divine Master and Judge; the next words, with their parallel in Ephesians, fix the reference. The Gospel, the great charter of liberty for man, always refuses him licence, even where he is the victim of oppression. See Introd. to the Ep. to Philemon, p. 158.

no respect of persons "with the Master who is in heaven" (Ephesians 6:9). See Exodus 23:3; Exodus 23:6, for a striking example of Scriptural equity: "thou shalt not countenance a poor man in his cause"; "thou shall not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause." Here and in Ephesians 6:9 we have identically the same principle, the impartiality of God, applied alike to the conscience of the slave and to the conscience of his owner.