Verse 9

And, you masters, do the same things to them, refraining from threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og oppgi trusler; for dere vet at også deres Herre er i himmelen, og det er ikke forskjell på personer for Ham.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Og dere eiere, gjør det samme mot dem, og ikke tru dem, for dere vet at både dere og dem har Herren i himmelen; og det finnes ingen forskjellsbehandling hos Ham.

• Norsk King James

  Og dere mestre, gjør det samme mot dem, og unngå trusler; for dere vet at også deres Mester er i himmelen; og han har ikke forskjell på personer.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og dere herrer! Gjør det samme mot dem og la trusler fare, vitende at også deres egen Herre er i himmelen, og han gjør ikke forskjell på personer.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Og, dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og hold opp med trusler, for dere vet at både dere og deres Herre er i himmelen, og hos ham er det ikke persons anseelse.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, avstå fra trusler, vitende at deres egen Herre også er i himmelen, og hos ham er det ingen partiskhet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og dere, herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og la vær å true, vitende at deres egen Herre er i himmelen, og at han ikke gjør forskjell på folk.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dere herrer, gjør det samme for deres tjenere uten trusler, for vær klar over at deres Herre også er i himmelen, og han gjør ikke forskjell på folk.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, slutt å bruke trusler. For dere vet at også deres Herre er i himmelen, og hos ham er det ikke persons anseelse.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, slutt å bruke trusler. For dere vet at også deres Herre er i himmelen, og hos ham er det ikke persons anseelse.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Og dere, herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og la trusler fare, idet dere vet at også deres Herre er i himlene, og han gjør ikke forskjell på folk.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  And masters, treat your slaves in the same way, without threatening them, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og avstå fra trusler. Vit at deres egen Herre er i himmelen, og Han gjør ikke forskjell på folk.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og I Herrer! gjører det Samme mod dem og lader Trudsel fare, vidende, at ogsaa Eders egen Herre er i Himlene, og Persons Anseelse er ikke hos ham.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og dere herrer, handle på samme måte mot dem, og la være å true: For vit at deres Herre i himmelen også uten å se på person.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og slutt med å true, for dere vet at både deres og deres tjeners Herre er i himmelen, og han gjør ikke forskjell på folk.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, og oppgi trusler, for dere vet at deres Herre er i himmelen, og han gjør ikke forskjell på folk.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme for dem, og la være å true, vitende at han som er både deres og deres tjeneres Herre, er i himmelen, og hos ham er det ingen forskjell på personer.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og dere herrer, gjør det samme mot dem, uten trusler, i visshet om at deres og deres Herre er i himmelen, og hos ham er det ingen forskjellsbehandling.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And ye masters do eve the same thinges vnto them puttinge awaye threateninges: and remember that even youre master also is in heven nether is ther eny respecte of person with him.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And ye masters, do euen the same vnto the, puttynge awaye threatenynges, and knowe that euen youre master also is in heauen, nether is there eny respecte of personnes with him.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And ye masters, doe the same things vnto them, putting away threatning: and know that euen your master also is in heauen, neither is there respect of person with him.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  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.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Referenced Verses

• Acts 10:34 : 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality:
• Col 3:25-4:1 : 25 But he who does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality. 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
• Jas 2:8 : 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.
• John 13:13 : 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.
• Job 31:13-15 : 13 If I have despised the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him? 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
• Deut 10:17 : 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty and awesome, who does not show partiality nor take a bribe:
• Matt 7:12 : 12 Therefore, whatever you want others to do to you, do also to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets.
• Rom 2:11 : 11 For there is no partiality with God.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
• Luke 6:31 : 31 And as you would that men should do to you, do also to them likewise.
• Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and begins to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunk; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
• Lev 19:13 : 13 You shall not defraud your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
• Lev 25:39-46 : 39 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee: 41 And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God. 44 Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.
• 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he who is called in the Lord while a servant is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's servant.
• Eph 6:5-7 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 7 With goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;
• Phil 2:10-11 : 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
• Matt 22:8 : 8 Then he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
• Matt 22:10 : 10 So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.
• Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming,
• Matt 24:51 : 51 and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Deut 15:11-16 : 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land. 12 And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty. 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today. 16 And it shall be, if he says to you, 'I will not go away from you,' because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
• Deut 24:14-15 : 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates: 15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
• 1 Sam 15:17 : 17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?
• Neh 5:5 : 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.
• Neh 5:8-9 : 8 And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer. 9 Also I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
• Job 24:10-12 : 10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry; 11 They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst. 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out, yet God does not charge them with folly.
• Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest regards, and there are higher than they.
• Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with My people, I have defiled My inheritance and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you have laid your yoke very heavily.
• Isa 58:3-6 : 3 Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high. 5 Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? 6 Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Dan 3:6 : 6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
• Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well; but if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands?
• Dan 5:19-20 : 19 And because of the majesty that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
• Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.