<p>6:5 <i>Servants, be obedient to those that according to the flesh are your masters, with respect and fear, in singleness of your heart, as if to Christ</i>- As with the commands about parents, children and marital partners, this would seem to apply to servants and masters within the church. As we each manifest the Lord Jesus because we are in Him, so servants should perceive the Christ in their believing masters. Seeing the Christ in others is what can so elevate and transform human relationships, including the difficult ones, such as between believing master and believing slave. The believing slave would have been sorely tempted to despise their believing masters, considering that really they should release them from slavery and shouldn't even be involved in slavery in the first place. To respect those who are not living as they might in Christ is hard indeed, but again, it is because they are &quot;in Christ&quot; that we can find the sort of respect for them which Paul found even for the Corinthians.</p>