Relationship Ties & Trials

Colossians 3:18-25 (NASB)
¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
²⁰ Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
²¹ Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.
²² Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
²³ Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,
²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
²⁵ For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.

Colossians 4:1 (NASB)
1 Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

 1. Relational Ties Of Wives & Husbands  

Colossians 3:18-19 (NASB)
¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Ephesians 5:25-33 (NASB)
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
²⁶ so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
²⁷ that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
²⁸ So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
³⁰ because we are members of His body.
³¹ For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife , and the two shall become one flesh.
³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
³³ Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

  2. Relational Ties Of Children & Parents

 Colossians 3:20-21 (NASB)
²⁰ Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
²¹ Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

Ephesians 6:1-4 (NASB)
¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
² Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
³ So that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  3. Relational Ties Of Slaves & Masters 

 Colossians 3:22 (NASB)
²² Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Colossians 4:1 (NASB)
¹ Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

Ephesians 6:5-9 (NASB)
⁵ Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;
⁶ not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
⁷ With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
⁸ knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
⁹ And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

  4.  Relational Trials Rewards & Regrets      

Colossians 3:23-25 (NASB)
²³ Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,
²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
²⁵ For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.