Colossians 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Col 3:23 : 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
  • Prov 3:6 : 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God. 21 In every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
  • Rom 14:6-8 : 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • 1 Thess 5:18 : 18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 19:17 : 17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
  • Acts 4:30 : 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
  • Phil 2:11 : 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • 1 John 2:23 : 23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
  • 2 Thess 2:17 : 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
  • Heb 1:5 : 5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"
  • 1 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

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    12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    16 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

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    18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.