21:1
Quas tibi fecit, aut fecerit ancillas conditio, et sorores professio, jam non pro nexu servitutis exulceres, sed pro paritate professionis honores. Quæ ergo tecum in Christo virginitatis stipendiis militat, pari tecum libertate exsultat. Nec sic vos provocamus ad humilitatem, ut illas superbia erigamus: quas dum tu accipis ut sorores, gratius illae tibi sint famulae, praebeantque obsequium non servitute addictæ, sed liberae cbaritate. Quoniam quidem non est personarum acceptio apud Dominum (Ephes. vi), scilicet, in distribuenda fide, ubi pariter consulitur dominae et ancillæ, ubi non eligitur domina, et reprobatur ancilla, aequaliter baptizatae, simul Christi corpus et sanguinem sumunt.
Those whom condition has made your handmaids, and profession your sisters, you should no longer chafe at on account of the bond of servitude, but honour for the equality of profession. She therefore who serves alongside you in Christ in the service of virginity, rejoices in equal liberty with you. Nor do we so urge you to humility that we lift them up into pride: for while you receive them as sisters, let them the more graciously be your servants, and render obedience not bound by servitude but free in charity. For there is no respect of persons with the Lord (Ephesians 6), that is, in the dispensing of the faith, where alike provision is made for mistress and handmaid, where the mistress is not chosen and the handmaid rejected, but, equally baptized, they take together the body and blood of Christ.
那些境遇使之成為你婢女、而立志成為你姊妹的人，你不該再因奴役的關係而對她們心生不滿，乃要因立志的平等而尊敬她們。所以那在基督裡與你一同在童貞的事奉中服役的，與你在同等的自由中歡欣。我們勸你謙卑，並非要藉著驕傲抬高她們：當你接納她們為姊妹時，願她們更蒙恩地作你的使女，所獻的順服不是受奴役所束縛，乃是在愛中得自由。因為在主那裡並不偏待人（以弗所書六章），就是在分賜信德的事上，主人與婢女同蒙眷顧，主人不被揀選、婢女不被棄絕，二者同樣受洗，一同領受基督的身體和血。
21:2
Nam et patriarchae dum essent sanctissimi, quantum ad res terrenas et tempOrales, discernebant inter servos et filios: illos ramulos, hos dominos judicabant; quod vero ad spei futurae uaunus attinet, ex æquo filiis et vernaculis consulebant, quos una circumcisione signabant.
For even the patriarchs, though they were most holy, as regards earthly and temporal things distinguished between servants and sons: the former they judged to be slaves, the latter masters; but as regards the gift of future hope, they made equal provision for sons and home-born slaves, marking them with one and the same circumcision.
因為連那些列祖，雖然極其聖潔，論到屬地暫時的事物，仍在僕人與兒子之間分別：他們判定前者為奴隸，後者為主人；然而論到將來盼望的賞賜，他們對兒子與家生的僕人同樣眷顧，用同一個割禮為他們作記號。