All Must Be Just, Loyal And Respectful Of Others, Even When They Have Faults

"Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as you should do in the LORD.  Husbands, love your wives and do not get angry with them.  Children, obey your parents in everything, because that pleases the LORD.  Parents, do not be too demanding of your children, lest they become discouraged.

Servants, obey your masters in everything; not only while they are present, to gain favor with them, but sincerely, because you fear the LORD.  Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly, working for the LORD, and not for humans.  You well know, that the LORD will reward you with the inheritance.  You are servants, but your LORD is CHRIST." - Colossians 3:18-24 

(The brief counsel given to spouses will be largely developed in Ephesians 5:21-33.  Paul would not accept the attitude of many Christians who say: "Religion has nothing to do with what I do in my home, my work, my leisure, or in politics."  On the contrary, Paul insists that Christians live all of this before the LORD, for the LORD and in the LORD.

This is why Paul preaches the same ethics to everyone: men, women, slaves [we would say bosses and workers]; all must be just, loyal and respectful of others, even when they have faults.  We should struggle to bring about change and defend our rights; but we must lead these struggles and live our commitments according to the Spirit of CHRIST.  Very often what we ask for in order to change the world is less important than the way in which we ask it, and it is often there that a Christian will give a witness that only she can give.  Let others be successful whatever the means that are taken and whatever the disastrous consequences for society: see on this subject the Sermon on the Mount [Matthew 5-7].)

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