6:9 Masters, 1 treat your slaves 2 the same way, 3 giving up the use of threats, 4 because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, 5 and there is no favoritism with him.
6:21 Tychicus, my 6 dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances, 7 how I am doing.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
2 tn Though the Greek text only has αὐτούς (autous, “them”), the antecedent is the slaves of the masters. Therefore, it was translated this way to make it explicit in English.
3 tn Grk “do the same things to them.”
4 tn Grk “giving up the threat.”
5 tn Grk “because of both they and you, the Lord is, in heaven…”
6 tn Grk “the.” The Greek article ὁ (Jo) was translated with the possessive pronoun, “my.” See ExSyn 215.
7 tn Grk “the things according to me.”