Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism. New Living Translation But if you do what is wrong, you will be paid back for the wrong you have done. For God has no favorites. English Standard Version For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. Berean Standard Bible Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Berean Literal Bible For the one doing wrong will be repaid for what he has done wrong; and there is no partiality. King James Bible But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. New King James Version But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality. New American Standard Bible For the one who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. NASB 1995 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. NASB 1977 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. Legacy Standard Bible For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. Amplified Bible For he who does wrong will be punished for his wrongdoing, and [with God] there is no partiality [no special treatment based on a person’s position in life]. Christian Standard Bible For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism. Holman Christian Standard Bible For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism. American Standard Version For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. Aramaic Bible in Plain English But he pays the wrongdoer according to what he does wrong, and there is no favoritism. Contemporary English Version But Christ has no favorites! He will punish evil people, just as they deserve. Douay-Rheims Bible For he that doth wrong, shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully: and there is no respect of persons with God. English Revised Version For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. GOD'S WORD® Translation The person who does wrong will be paid back for the wrong he has done. God does not play favorites. Good News Translation And all wrongdoers will be repaid for the wrong things they do, because God judges everyone by the same standard. International Standard Version For the person who does what is wrong will be paid back for what he has done without favoritism. Literal Standard Version and he who is doing unrighteously will receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no favor by appearance. Majority Standard Bible Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. New American Bible For the wrongdoer will receive recompense for the wrong he committed, and there is no partiality. NET Bible For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there are no exceptions. New Revised Standard Version For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong has been done, and there is no partiality. New Heart English Bible But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality. Webster's Bible Translation But he that doeth wrong, will receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. Weymouth New Testament The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions. World English Bible But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality. Young's Literal Translation and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Christian Households…24because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Cross References Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. Job 34:19 who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands. Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man will come in His Father's glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak: "I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism, Ephesians 6:8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free. Ephesians 6:9 And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him. 2 Thessalonians 1:6 After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, Treasury of Scripture But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons. he that. 1 Corinthians 6:7,8 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? … 1 Thessalonians 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. Philemon 1:18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account; receive. 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; and. Colossians 4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Deuteronomy 1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. Jump to Previous Acceptance Consequences Distinctions Earthly Favoritism Find ly Merely Paid Partiality Persons Position Punishment Receive Repaid Respect sly Unrighteously Wrong WrongdoerJump to Next Acceptance Consequences Distinctions Earthly Favoritism Find ly Merely Paid Partiality Persons Position Punishment Receive Repaid Respect sly Unrighteously Wrong WrongdoerColossians 3 1. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. He exhorts to holiness; 10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ; 12. exhorting to charity, humility, 18. and other duties. (25) He that doeth wrong is clearly here the master (see Ephesians 6:9), though, of course, the phrase cannot be limited to him. Verse 25. - For he that doeth wrong shall receive again that he did wrong; and there is no respect of persons (Ephesians 6:8, 9; Philippians 1:28; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7; 1 Peter 1:17; Romans 2:11; Galatians 2:6). "For" is replaced by "but" in the same inferior copies which insert it in the last sentence. Here we have the ether side of the recompense promised in ver. 24 a, to which the explanatory "for" points back. The impartial justice which avenges every wrong guarantees the reward of the faithful servant of Christ. So the Old Testament saints rightly argued (Psalm 37:9-11; Psalm 58:10, 11; Psalm 64:7-10) that the punishment of the evil doer affords hope to the righteous man. This warning is quite general in its terms, and applies alike to the unfaithful servant and to the unjust master (comp. Ephesians 6:8). At the judgment seat of Christ there will be no favouritism: all ranks and orders of men will stand on precisely the same footing (Colossians 3:11). The word ἀδικέω, twice employed here, denotes a legal wrong or injury (1 Corinthians 6:7, 8); e.g. the conduct of Onesimus towards Philemon (ver. 18). The verb "receive" (κομίζομαι, carry off, gain; Ephesians 6:8; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Peter 5:4; Matthew 25:27) looks more to the receiver, whereas ἀπολήμψεσθε ἀπό (ver. 24) points to the giver. Προσωπολημψία (literally, accepting of the face) is a pure Hebraism, found in St. James twice, and four times in St. Paul. The apostle turns from the slave to address his master. Ch. 4:1. - Ye lords, show just dealing and fairness to your servants [bondmen] (Ephesians 6:8, 9; Matthew 18:23-35; Luke 6:31). The verb "show" (παρέχεσθε, afford, render) is middle in voice, and, as in Luke 7:4 and Titus 2:7, implies spontaneity - "show on your part," "of yourselves." Τὸ δίκαιον ("the just"), a concrete expression, denotes the justice of the master's dealing (comp. τὸ χρηστόν in Romans 2:4, "the kind dealing of God"). Τὴν ἰσότητα gives the principle by which he is to be guided, that of equity, fairness (so Alford, Ellicott, Lightfoot). "Equity is the mother of Justice" (Philo, 'On the Creation of Magistrates,' § 14; see other illustrations in Lightfoot). Meyer contends for the stricter sense, "equality" (2 Corinthians 8:13, 14) - i.e. of Church status and brotherhood (Philemon 1:16; Colossians 3:11). But the context suggests no such special reference; it deals with the family and social relationship of master and servant "Equity" is a well-established sense of the Greek word. The law of equity bearing on all human relations Christ has laid down in Luke 6:31. Here is the germinal principle of the abolition of slavery. Moral equity, as realized by the Christian consciousness, was sure in course of time to bring about legal equality. Knowing that ye also have a Lord in heaven (Colossians 2:6; Ephesians 6:9; 1 Corinthians 7:22; Philippians 2:11; Romans 14:9; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16). (On "knowing," see ver. 24 a.) "Ye also," for Christ is "both their Lord and yours" (Ephesians 6:9, Revised Text). The lordship of Christ dominates the whole Epistle (Colossians 1:15, 18; Colossians 2:6, 10, 19, etc.). The assertion that the proud master who deemed his fellow man his chattel is himself a mere slave of Christ, sets Christ's authority in a vivid and striking light. This consideration makes the Christian master apprehensive as to his treatment of his dependents. He is "in heaven" (Colossians 3:1; Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 6:9; Ephesians 4:10; Philippians 3:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; Acts 3:21; John 3:13; John 8:23; Hebrews 9:24), the seat of Divine authority and glory, whence he shall soon return to judgment (comp. Psalm 76:8; Romans 1:18). |