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Efesus 6:8

Kamu tahu, bahwa setiap orang, baik hamba, maupun orang merdeka, kalau ia telah berbuat sesuatu yang baik, ia akan menerima balasannya dari Tuhan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Judgment;   Liberty;   Obedience;   Respect of Persons;   Righteous;   Servant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Future, the;   Promises, Divine;   Reward;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Deeds;   Goodness;   Masters;   Obedience;   Servants;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Conduct, Christian;   Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Servant;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Justice;   Servant;   Slave;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Motives;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Image;   Love, Brotherly;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Colosse;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Black People and Biblical Perspectives;   Ephesians, Book of;   Slave/servant;   Work, Theology of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Slave, Slavery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Family;   Goodness (Human);   Labour;   Onesimus ;   Pre-Eminence ;   Socialism;   Soul;   Worldliness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Slave;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 16;   Every Day Light - Devotion for April 13;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kamu tahu, bahwa setiap orang, baik hamba, maupun orang merdeka, kalau ia telah berbuat sesuatu yang baik, ia akan menerima balasannya dari Tuhan.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
sebab mengetahui apa yang baik diperbuat masing-masing, itulah juga diterimanya daripada Tuhan, baik hamba baik merdeka.

Contextual Overview

1 Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for this is ryght. 2 Honour thy father and mother (whiche is the first commaundement in promise) 3 That thou mayest prosper, and lyue long on earth. 4 Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lorde. 5 Seruauntes obey them that are your bodyly maisters, with feare and tremblyng, in singlenesse of your heart, as vnto Christe. 6 Not with seruice vnto the eye, as men pleasers: but as the seruautes of Christ. 7 Doyng the wyll of God fro the heart, with good wyll seruyng the Lorde, and not men: 8 Knowyng, that whatsoeuer good thyng any man doeth, that shall he receaue agayne of the Lorde, whether [he be] bonde or free. 9 And ye maisters do the same thynges vnto them, puttyng away threatnyng: knowyng that your maister also is in heauen, neither is respecte of person with hym.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whatsoever: Proverbs 11:18, Proverbs 23:18, Isaiah 3:11, Matthew 5:12, Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:4, Matthew 10:41, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 16:27, Luke 6:35, Luke 14:14, Romans 2:6-10, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Colossians 3:24, Hebrews 10:35, Hebrews 11:26

whether: Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11

Reciprocal: Psalms 62:12 - renderest Isaiah 24:2 - as with the people Matthew 20:7 - and 1 Corinthians 12:13 - bond 2 Corinthians 6:11 - our heart Colossians 4:1 - ye Revelation 13:16 - free

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.
Genesis 19:19
Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye.
Psalms 84:11
For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection.
Psalms 145:20
God preserueth all those that loue him: but he wyll bring to nothyng such as be vngodly.
Proverbs 3:4
So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstandyng in the sight of God and men.
Proverbs 8:35
For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.
Jeremiah 31:2
Thus saith the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wildernesse from the sworde, founde grace to come into their rest.
Luke 1:30
And the Angel saide vnto her: Feare not Marie, for thou hast founde grace with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doth,.... According to the will of God, from right principles in his heart, and with a view to God's glory:

the same shall he receive of the Lord; that is, he shall receive the fruit and advantage of it, in a way of grace,

whether [he be] bond or free; a bondman or a free man, a master or a servant.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Knowing that whatsoever good thing - Whatever a man does that is right, for that he shall be appropriately rewarded. No matter what his rank in life, if he discharges his duty to God and man, he will be accepted. A man in a state of servitude may so live as to honor God; and, so living, he should not be greatly solicitous about his condition. A master may fail to render suitable recompense to a slave. But, if the servant is faithful to God, he will recompense him in the future world. It is in this way that religion would make the evils of life tolerable, by teaching those who are oppressed to hear their trials in a patient spirit, and to look forward to the future world of reward. Religion does not approve of slavery. It is the friend of human rights. If it had full influence on earth, it would restore every man to freedom, and impart to each one his rights. Christianity nowhere requires its friends to make or to own a slave. No one under the proper influence of religion ever yet made a man a slave; there is no one under its proper influence who would not desire that all should be free; and just in proportion as true religion spreads over the world, will universal freedom be its attendant. But Christianity would lighten the evils of slavery even while it exists, and would comfort those who are doomed to so hard a lot, by assuring them that there they may render acceptable service to God, and that they soon will be admitted to a world where galling servitude will be known no more. If they may not have freedom here, they may have contentment if they feel that wrong is done them by men, they may feel that right will be done them by God; if their masters do not reward them for their services here, God will; and if they may not enjoy liberty here, they will soon be received into the world of perfect freedom - heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Whatsoever good thing any man doeth — Though your masters should fail to give you the due reward of your fidelity and labour, yet, as ye have done your work as unto the Lord, he will take care to give you the proper recompense.

Whether he be bond — A slave, bought with money;

Or free. — A person who has hired himself of his own free accord.


 
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