Colossians 4:1-4

Colossians 4:1. Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;

I sometimes think that the good men who chopped the Bible up into Chapter s for it is not in Chapter s in the original, must have hoped that we should 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 the children, there is generally one to the 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;

Colossians 4:1. Knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with 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.

This exposition consisted of readings from Colossians 3:1 and Colossians 4:1.