Ephesians 6:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of Messiah, doing the desire of Elohim from the inner self,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Not in the way of eye-service [as if they were watching you] and only to please men, but as servants (slaves) of Christ, doing the will of God heartily and with your whole soul;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Common English Bible

⁶ Don’t work to make yourself look good and try to flatter people, but act like slaves of Christ carrying out God’s will from the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Do not serve only when seen, as if to please men, but act as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Ephesians 6:6 Cross References

Jeremiah 24:7

‘And I shall give them a heart to know Me, that I am יהוה. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim, for they shall turn back to Me with all their heart.

Jeremiah 3:10

“And yet for all this her treacherous sister Yehuḏ

Matthew 12:50

“For whoever does the desire of My Father who is in the heavens is My brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens.

Mark 3:35

“For whoever does the desire of Elohim is My brother and My sister and mother.”

Romans 6:17

But thanks to Elohim that you were servants of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who is called in the Master while a slave is the Master’s freed man. Likewise he who is called while free is a slave of Messiah.

Galatians 1:10

For do I now persuade men, or Elohim? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be a servant of Messiah.

Ephesians 5:17

So then do not be foolish, but understand what the desire of יהוה  is.

Philippians 2:12

So that, my beloved, as you always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much rather in my absence – work out your own deliverance with fear and trembling,

Colossians 1:9

That is also why we, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you, and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of His desire in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Messiah, greets you, always wrestling for you in prayers, so that you stand perfect and complete in all the desire of Elohim.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

But as we have been approved by Elohim to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but Elohim who proves our hearts.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the desire of Elohim: your set-apartness! – that you should abstain from whoring,

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of Elohim, you receive the promise:

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfectin every good work to do His desire, working in youwhat is pleasing in His sight, through יהושע  Messiah, to whom be esteem forever and ever. Amĕ

1 Peter 2:15

Because such is the desire of Elohim, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men,

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim.

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever.