Colossians 3:23
Good News Translation
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people.

New Revised Standard Version
Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters,

Contemporary English Version
Do your work willingly, as though you were serving the Lord himself, and not just your earthly master.

New American Bible
Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:

whatsoever.

Colossians 3:17 All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

2 Chronicles 31:21 In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it and prospered.

Psalm 47:6,7 Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye. . . .

Psalm 103:1 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

Psalm 119:10,34,145 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Jeremiah 3:10 And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

as.

Zechariah 7:5-7 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me? . . .

Matthew 6:16 And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Romans 14:6,8 He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God. . . .

Ephesians 5:22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Ephesians 6:6,7 Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. . . .

1 Peter 2:13,15 Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling, . . .

Context
Christian Households
22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. 23Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men: 24Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Ephesians 6:7
With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.

Colossians 3:22
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