Ephesians 6:6 Cross References

Ephesians 6:6

6: Work hard, but not just to please your masters when they are watching. As slaves of Christ, do the will of God with all your heart.

Colossians 3:22

  1. You slaves must obey your earthly masters in everything you do. Try to please them all the time, not just when they are watching you. Obey them willingly because of your reverent fear of the Lord.
  2. Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

  1. For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts.

Galatians 1:10

  1. Obviously, I'm not trying to be a people pleaser! No, I am trying to please God. If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ's servant.

Ephesians 5:17

  1. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.

1 Peter 4:2

  1. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.

Philippians 2:12

  1. Dearest friends, you were always so careful to follow my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away you must be even more careful to put into action God's saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.

Matthew 7:21

  1. "Not all people who sound religious are really godly. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but they still won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The decisive issue is whether they obey my Father in heaven.

Colossians 1:9

  1. So we have continued praying for you ever since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.

Matthew 12:50

  1. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!"

Hebrews 13:20

  1. And now, may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, all that is pleasing to him. Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed with his blood. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Romans 6:17

  1. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you have obeyed with all your heart the new teaching God has given you.

Hebrews 10:36

  1. Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Jeremiah 24:7

  1. I will give them hearts that will recognize me as the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me wholeheartedly.

1 Peter 2:15

  1. It is God's will that your good lives should silence those who make foolish accusations against you.

Jeremiah 3:10

  1. But in spite of all this, her faithless sister Judah has never sincerely returned to me. She has only pretended to be sorry," says the LORD.

Colossians 4:12

  1. Epaphras, from your city, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident of the whole will of God.

1 John 2:17

  1. And this world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

  1. God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin.
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