Colossians 3:18-25

Duties in the Christian Household

Colossians 3:18-25

Household Rules

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The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
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the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
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the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
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the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
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The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
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and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,
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having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance--for the Lord Christ ye serve;
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and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Colossians 3:17

    and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
    from verse 23

  • Ephesians 6:7

    with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,
    from verse 22

  • Ephesians 6:6

    not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
    from verse 23

  • Romans 14:8

    for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
    from verse 23

  • 2 Chronicles 31:21

    and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.
    from verse 23

  • Ecclesiastes 9:10

    All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
    from verse 23

  • 1 Peter 2:15

    because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;
    from verse 23

  • Exodus 20:12

    `Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
    from verse 20

  • Ephesians 6:1

    The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
    from verse 20

  • Ephesians 6:3

    which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
    from verse 20

  • 1 Peter 3:7

    The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
    from verse 19

  • 1 Peter 2:13

    Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,
    from verse 23

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