Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Menpleasers
In singleness
Fearing
Bible References
Menpleasers
Galatians 1:10
Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.
In singleness
Matthew 6:22
"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted;
Acts 2:46
Day after day they continued stedfastly with one accord in the Temple; and breaking bread together in their own homes, they continued to eat their food with gladness and an undivided heart,
Ephesians 6:5
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;
Fearing
2 Corinthians 7:1
As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.