knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
The gospel's highest truths breed the plainest duties. Wives must submit to their own husbands as fitting in the Lord, not from fear but from the order God Himself established; husbands must love them in return, never bitter. The privileges of grace and the obligations of our station must never be torn asunder.
AI summary
Commenting on Colossians 3:18-25
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance,.... This is said for the encouragement of Christian servants, who, though they may receive little or nothing from their earthly and carnal masters; yet they shall be used and treated as children by the Lord, and by whom they will be possessed of an eternal inheritance, after their work and labour is...
the reward of the inheritance--"Knowing that it is from the Lord (the ultimate source of reward), ye shall receive the compensation (or recompense, which will make ample amends for your having no earthly possession as slaves now) consisting of the inheritance" (a term excluding the notion of meriting it by works: it is all of grace, Rom 4:14; Gal 3:18).