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1 Peter 2 18-1 Peter 2 21
Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.
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Titus 2:9-10
Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back,not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.
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Colossians 3:17-24
And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.Slaves, obey your earthly masters in every respect, not only when they are watching– like those who are strictly people- pleasers– but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.
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Malachi 1:6
“ A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The LORD who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply,‘ How have we made light of your name?’
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Ephesians 1:1-23
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints[ in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his gracethat he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth.In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his willso that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.And when you heard the word of truth( the gospel of your salvation)– when you believed in Christ– you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realmsfar above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
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Psalms 123:2
Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress, so my eyes will look to the LORD, our God, until he shows us favor.
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1 Timothy 6 1-1 Timothy 6 3
Those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as deserving of full respect. This will prevent the name of God and Christian teaching from being discredited.But those who have believing masters must not show them less respect because they are brothers. Instead they are to serve all the more, because those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved. Teach them and exhort them about these things.If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words( that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,
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Philippians 2:12
So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
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Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
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2 Corinthians 11 2-2 Corinthians 11 3
For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
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1 Peter 3 2
when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
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Psalms 86:11
O LORD, teach me how you want me to live! Then I will obey your commands. Make me wholeheartedly committed to you!
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1 Chronicles 29 17
I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.
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Joshua 24:14
Now obey the LORD and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the LORD.
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Philemon 1:16
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.
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Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
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Matthew 6:22
“ The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
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2 Corinthians 1 12
For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
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Acts 2:46
Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,
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Acts 10:7-8
When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
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Matthew 8:9
For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one,‘ Go’ and he goes, and to another‘ Come’ and he comes, and to my slave‘ Do this’ and he does it.”
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2 Corinthians 7 15
And his affection for you is much greater when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
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Matthew 6:24
“ No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
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1 Corinthians 2 3
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.
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1 Corinthians 7 22
For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.
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Genesis 16:9
Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“ Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.