“But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.”
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven — masters are commanded to treat slaves 'justly and fairly' (dikaios, isotēs). They answer to a 'Master in heaven' (kyriēs en ouranois): God oversees their conduct. Slavery's brutality is checked: masters are accountable. Yet abolition is not demanded, only ethical mitigation.
Church Fathers on Colossians 3:25
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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