Therefore do not be partakers with them,

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.