Ephesians 6:5

Weymouth NT

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

Cross References

Matthew 6:22

»The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;«

Matthew 6:24

»No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.«

Matthew 8:9

For I myself am also under authority, and have soldiers under me. To one I say `Go,' and he goes, to another `Come,' and he comes, and to my slave `Do this or that,' and he does it.«

Acts 2:46

And, day by day, attending constantly in the Temple with one accord, and breaking bread in private houses, they took their meals with great happiness and single-heartedness,

Romans 9:3

For I could pray to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, my human kinsfolk–for such the Israelites are.

1 Corinthians 2:3

And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For the reason for our boasting is this–the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.

2 Corinthians 7:15

And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him.

Ephesians 5:22

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

Ephesians 6:24

May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with perfect sincerity.

Philippians 2:12

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling –not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you– labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

Philemon 1:16

no longer as a slave, but as something better than a slave–a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you, both as a servant and as a fellow Christian.

1 Peter 3:2

so full of reverence, and so blameless!