“Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality — the judgment applies to all: wrongdoers (ho adikos) face divine repayment (apolambano). 'No partiality' (prosōpolēmpsia) means masters are not exempt. Divine justice transcends earthly hierarchy.
Church Fathers on Colossians 3:24
Why does he not give these commands everywhere, and in all the Epistles, but only here, and in that to the Ephesians, and that to Timothy, and that to Titus? Because probably there were dissensions in these cities; or probably they were correct in other respects, so that it was expedient they should hear about these things. Rather, however, what he says to these, he says to all. Now in these things also this Epistle bears great resemblance to that to the Ephesians, either…
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