1 Timothy 6:1-3

Instructions for the Church

¹ _o Let all who are under a yoke as slaves ₁ regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, _p so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

False Teachers and True Contentment

² Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are _q brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. _r Teach and urge these things. ³ If anyone _s teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with _t the sound ₂ words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching _u that accords with godliness,

1. Cross References
   1 Peter 2:18
   Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 52:5
   Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
   Romans 2:24
   For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
   Titus 2:5
   To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
   
3. Cross References
   Philemon 1:16
   No longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother - especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Timothy 4:11
   Command and teach these things.
   1 Timothy 4:13
   Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
   1 Timothy 5:7
   Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:3
   As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:10
   The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.
   
7. Cross References
   Titus 1:1
   Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness.