Ephesians 6:6

New Revised Standard Version

not only while being watched, and in order to please them, 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 that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the Lord.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven 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

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted,

1 Corinthians 7:22

For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave of Christ.

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.

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Philippians 2:12

Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

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.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 2:15

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.