Precious friends, are you "purloining" at work? Is it Pleasing To God?
What? Can we compare Scriptures about "masters and slaves" to
"employers and workers"? Please Be Encouraged and Edified:
"
...When Paul adds that servants should serve their masters by “not answering
again,” that’s a Bible phrase that only appears here, so we can’t define it by
comparing Scripture with Scripture, the only safe way to interpret God’s Word
(1 Cor. 2:13). But as the Coasters sang many years ago, when parents tell
children what to do and hear any “yakety yak” in response, parents usually
say, “Don’t talk back!”
And that’s what Paul was telling servants to do: obey their masters with no
backtalk. Nothing is less delightful to a master than a servant who gives him
lip! So why not determine here and now that you will please your boss well
in all things instead. Paul gave some additional instructions for servants
when he told them to obey their masters,
(R Kurth)
FULL study:
Aim To Please
GRACE and Peace!
What? Can we compare Scriptures about "masters and slaves" to
"employers and workers"? Please Be Encouraged and Edified:
"
...When Paul adds that servants should serve their masters by “not answering
again,” that’s a Bible phrase that only appears here, so we can’t define it by
comparing Scripture with Scripture, the only safe way to interpret God’s Word
(1 Cor. 2:13). But as the Coasters sang many years ago, when parents tell
children what to do and hear any “yakety yak” in response, parents usually
say, “Don’t talk back!”
And that’s what Paul was telling servants to do: obey their masters with no
backtalk. Nothing is less delightful to a master than a servant who gives him
lip! So why not determine here and now that you will please your boss well
in all things instead. Paul gave some additional instructions for servants
when he told them to obey their masters,
“Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity” (Titus 2:10)...
"(R Kurth)
FULL study:
Aim To Please
GRACE and Peace!
