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Scriptures Referenced
22 Servants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you as pleasers of men,
but in simplicity of purpose [with all your heart] because of your reverence for the Lord and as a sincere expression of your devotion to Him.
23 Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men,
24 Knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward. [The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah).
25 For he who deals wrongfully will [reap the fruit of his folly and] be punished for his wrongdoing.
And [with God] there is no partiality [no matter what a person’s position may be, whether he is the slave or the master].
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Proverbs 16:7 – When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Galatians 1:10 – For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 – But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Proverbs 29:25 – The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
John 12:43 – For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Acts 5:29 – Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Colossians 3:23 – And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
2 Corinthians 5:9 – Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
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James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
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5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
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3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
