Genesis 31:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ and you also know that with all my ability I have served your father;

²⁹ And Jacob said, Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and how many cattle belonging to thee are now with me.

³⁸ These twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not cast their young; nor have I devoured the rams of thy flock. ³⁹ What was torn by wild beasts I brought not to thee. I made up at my own expence the loss of what was stolen by day or by night. ⁴⁰ I have borne the sultry heat of the day and the frost of the night, and sleep departed from my eyes. ⁴¹ I have been in thy family these twenty years. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters; and six years for thy flocks; though thou didst change my wages at the ten lambings. ⁴² Had not the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaak been with me, thou wouldst now have sent me away empty. God hath seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, therefore he rebuked thee last night.

⁵ Servants, obey them who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts, as you do the Christ ⁶ not with eye-service as men pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, ⁷ performing service with good will, as to the Lord and not to men; ⁸ knowing that whatever good any one doth, the Lord will reward him for it, whether he be a bondman or freeman.

²² Servants, obey in all respects them who are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service as men pleasers, but with singleness of heart, fearing God; ²³ and whatever you do, do it heartily as for the Lord, and not for men, ²⁴ knowing that you will receive from the Lord the reward of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ, ²⁵ and he who doth wrong shall receive according to the wrong he hath done. There is no respect of persons.

⁹ Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters; to be in all things studious to please; not answering again, ¹⁰ not embezzling, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may in all things adorn the doctrine of our saviour God.

¹⁸ You who are servants, be subject to your masters with reverence, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the morose.