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Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; |
Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, |
Urge bond-slaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well pleasing, not argumentative, |
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Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them. |
[Tell] bond servants to be submissive to their masters, to be pleasing and give satisfaction in every way. [Warn them] not to talk back or contradict, |
Exhort slaves to be putting themselves in subjection to their own masters with implicit obedience in all things; to give them satisfaction, not crossing them, |
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Slaves should be told that it is their duty as Christians to obey their masters and to give them satisfactory service in every way. They are not to answer back |
Continue urging slaves to practice a perfect submission to their masters and to give them perfect satisfaction, to stop resisting them |
Exhort servants 1401 to be obedient 5293 unto their own 2398 masters, 1203 and 1511 to please them well 2101 in 1722 all 3956 things; not 3361 answering again; 483 |
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