Ephesians 6:6

New American Bible - revised edition

not only when being watched, as currying favor, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Cross References

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, Judah, the traitor, her sister, did not return to me wholeheartedly, but insincerely—oracle of the Lord. Restoration of Israel.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Mark 3:35

[For] whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For the slave called in the Lord is a freed person in the Lord, just as the free person who has been called is a slave of Christ.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. His Call by Christ.

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

Philippians 2:12

So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Colossians 1:9

Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras sends you greetings; he is one of you, a slave of Christ [Jesus], always striving for you in his prayers so that you may be perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

But as we were judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the gospel, that is how we speak, not as trying to please human beings, but rather God, who judges our hearts.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

This is the will of God, your holiness: that you refrain from immorality,

Hebrews 10:36

You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.

Hebrews 13:21

furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will. May he carry out in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever [and ever]. Amen.

1 Peter 2:15

For it is the will of God that by doing good you may silence the ignorance of foolish people.

1 Peter 4:2

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.

1 John 2:17

Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever. Antichrists.