⁶ and ye -- ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,

²⁹ And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee `in', and that which thy substance was with me;

³⁸ `These twenty years I `am' with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

³⁹ the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

⁴⁰ I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

⁴¹ `This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

⁴² unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

⁵ The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

⁶ not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

⁷ with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

⁸ having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

²² The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

²³ and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

²⁴ having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;

²⁵ and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

⁹ Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

¹⁸ The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;