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1 Timothy 6 1-1 Timothy 6 2
All who are under the yoke as slaves should regard their own masters as worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and his teaching will not be blasphemed.Let those who have believing masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but serve them even better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved. Teach and encourage these things.
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Ephesians 6:5-7
Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ.Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to people,
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Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
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1 Peter 2 18-1 Peter 2 19
Household slaves, submit to your masters with all reverence not only to the good and gentle ones but also to the cruel.For it brings favor if, because of a consciousness of God, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.
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Luke 6:46
“ Why do you call me‘ Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?
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1 Thessalonians 2 4
Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.
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Galatians 1:10
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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Ecclesiastes 5:7
For many dreams bring futility; so do many words. Therefore, fear God.
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Titus 2:9-10
Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking backor stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people, for they are reverent before him.
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Malachi 1:6
“ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the LORD of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.” Yet you ask,“ How have we despised your name?”
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Genesis 42:18
On the third day Joseph said to them,“ I fear God— do this and you will live.
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Nehemiah 5:15
The governors who preceded me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them food and wine as well as a pound of silver. Their subordinates also oppressed the people, but because of the fear of God, I didn’t do this.
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2 Corinthians 7 1
So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
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Ecclesiastes 12:13
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: fear God and keep his commands, because this is for all humanity.
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Acts 2:46
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,
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Matthew 8:9
For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one,‘ Go,’ and he goes; and to another,‘ Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant,‘ Do this!’ and he does it.”
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Luke 7:8
For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one,‘ Go,’ and he goes; and to another,‘ Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant,‘ Do this,’ and he does it.”
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Nehemiah 5:9
Then I said,“ What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?
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Philemon 1:16
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave— as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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Matthew 6:22
“ The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
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Psalms 123:2
Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand, like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until he shows us favor.