Colossians 3:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Servants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you as pleasers of men, but in simplicity of purpose [with all your heart] because of your reverence for the Lord and as a sincere expression of your devotion to Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

Common English Bible

²² Slaves, obey your masters on earth in everything. Don’t just obey like people pleasers when they are watching. Instead, obey with the single motivation of fearing the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Servants, obey, in all things, your lords according to the flesh, not serving only when seen, as if to please men, but serving in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Colossians 3:22 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:9

So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

Psalm 123:2

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he has mercy upon us.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of everyone.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words, but fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though sinners do evil a hundred times and prolong their lives, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they stand in fear before him,

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”

Matthew 6:22

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

Matthew 8:9

For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me, and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.”

Luke 6:46

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you?

Luke 7:8

For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me, and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.”

Acts 2:46

Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts,

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals but to please God, who tests our hearts.

Philemon 1:16

no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.