Verse 23

Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,

Referenced Verses

  • Col 3:17 : 17 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.
  • Eph 6:6-7 : 6 not like those who do their work only when someone is watching– as people-pleasers– but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart. 7 Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,
  • Rom 14:8 : 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
  • 1 Pet 2:15 : 15 For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
  • 1 Pet 2:13 : 13 Submission to Authorities Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme
  • 2 Chr 31:21 : 21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.
  • Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.
  • Rom 14:6 : 6 The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Ps 119:145 : 145 ק(Qof) I cried out with all my heart,“Answer me, O LORD! I will observe your statutes.”
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 In spite of all this, Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” says the LORD.
  • Zech 7:5-7 : 5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows:‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me– for me, indeed? 6 And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’” 7 Should you not have obeyed the words that the LORD cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the foothills were also populated?
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 Proper Fasting“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!
  • Ps 103:1 : 1 By David. Praise the LORD, O my soul! With all that is within me, praise his holy name!
  • Ps 47:6-7 : 6 Sing to God! Sing! Sing to our king! Sing! 7 For God is king of the whole earth! Sing a well-written song!
  • Eph 5:22 : 22 Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,