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Your masters according to the flesh (tois kata sarka kuriois). “Lords” really, but these Christian slaves (douloi) had Christ as lord, but even so they were to obey their lords in the flesh.
Not with eye-service (mē en ophthalmodouliais). Another Pauline word (here only and Eph 6:6), elsewhere only in Christian writers after Paul, an easy and expressive compound, service while the master’s eye was on the slave and no longer.
Men-pleasers (anthrōpareskoi). Late compound only in lxx and Paul (here and Eph 6:6).
In singleness of heart (en haplotēti kardias). So in Eph 6:5. Old and expressive word from haplous (simple, without folds). See 2Co 11:3.
Fearing the Lord (phoboumenoi ton Kurion). Rather than the lords according to the flesh.