Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always hearkened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own saving health with fear and trembling.

Slaves, in all things hearken unto your masters according to the flesh, not serving to be seen as those who only please men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

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Therefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding of what the will of the Lord is.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand firm, perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God.

For the will of God is your sanctification, that ye should separate yourselves from fornication,

for patience is necessary, so that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

For this is the will of God, that in well doing ye may silence the ignorance of vain men,

so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.

And the world passes away and the lust thereof, but he that does the will of God abides for ever.

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And yet for all this her rebellious sister Judah has never turned unto me with her whole heart, but untruthfully, said the LORD.

And I will give them a heart that they might know me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

Thank God that, although ye were the slaves of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered;

And whatever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men,

General references

And they set food before him to eat, but he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said unto him, Speak on.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee and how many livestock thou hast with me.

And ye know that with all my strength I have served your father.