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Colossians 3:22 KJV
Colossians · chapter 3 · verse 22
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:Colossians 3:22 · King James Version
Colossians 3:22 in context
20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
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Key words (Strong's)
- menpleasersanthrōpareskosstudying to please man, courting the favour of menG441 →
- eyeserviceophthalmodouliaservice performed [only] under the master's eyes, for the master's eye usually stimulates…G3787 →
- singlenesshaplotēssingleness, simplicity, sincerity, mental honesty, the virtue of one who is free from…G572 →
- accordingkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- Servantsdoulosa slave, bondman, man of servile condition, a slave, metaph., one who gives himself up to…G1401 →
- masterskyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
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The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular and distinct in pressing the duties of the several relations.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-25