And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

Doing

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.

because whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the Messiah Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature, completely convinced of the entire will of God.

For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

equip you with everything good to do his will, accomplishing in us what pleases him through Jesus, the Messiah. To him be glory forever and ever! Amen.

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

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God's will remains forever.

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Yet in all this her treacherous sister Judah didn't return to me with her whole heart, but rather deceptively," declares the LORD.

I'll give them the ability to know me, for I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart.

But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!

Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.

General references

But when they had prepared a meal and set it in front of him, he said, "I'm not eating until I've spoken." "Speak up!" Laban exclaimed.

But Jacob replied to Laban, "You know how I've served you and how your cattle thrived under my care.

You know I've been serving your father with all my heart.