<p>4:1 <em>Masters, give to your servants what is just and equal. Knowing you also have a master in heaven</em>- Our relationships with others should be governed by our sense of relationship with the Lord Jesus. If we are but His slaves, then we will deport ourselves appropriately in any secular position of authority which may be our lot. The even handed attitude of the Lord Jesus to us, without favouritism, was to be reflected by masters not having favourites amongst their slave; and certainly not giving them unjust compensation for their services. For the Lord's attitude to us is ultimately &quot;just and equal&quot;. Indeed, Paul's thought is repeatedly that we are the unjust, but are justified by faith in His grace. Our Master died for us, &quot;the just for unjust&quot; (1 Pet. 3:18). And even if we have to deal with unjust servants, we are to remember that God sends His rain on both the just and the unjust (Mt. 5:45). This command follows on from the comment in the previous verse that there is &quot;no respect of persons&quot; with the Lord Jesus, and that believing masters who abused their slaves would be judged for this (3:25).</p>