"For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." (1 Peter ii, 18, 19.)
"Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh."
He was afraid they might not work all the time, so he adds:
"Not with the eye-service, as men pleasers, but in the singleness of heart fearing God."
Read the twenty-first chapter of Exodus, 7 to 11.
"And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
"If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
"If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.
"And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money."
"Servants, be obedient to your masters," is the salutation of the most merciful God to one who works for nothing and who receives upon his naked back the lash, as legal tender for service performed.