Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye service, as men-pleasers but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. --Colossians 3:22 NKJV
Bondservants - Doulos - slave, one who gives himself up to another's will whose service is used by Christ in extending and advancing his causes among men. Devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interest. (We as believers are no longer slaves to sin but we are the Lord's freed man...we are slaves of Christ - THAT is a pretty personal relationship)
Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.--Psalm 123:2
obey - hearken, submit
in all things - each and every
your masters - He to whom a person belongs about which he has the power of deciding; master, Lord, owner, one who has control. the possessor and disposer of a thing. (As believers we belong to God...Jesus is our Master, our Lord and our Savior)
according to the flesh - toward the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, the body
not with eye service - service performed only under the master's eyes; master's eye stimulates to greater diligence, his absence, renders sluggish.
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.--Galatians 1:10
as men pleasers - anthropareskos -STUDYING to please man, courting the favor of men.
but in singleness - sincerity, simplicity, mental honesty, the virtue of one who is free from pretence and hypocrisy; not self-seeking, openness of heart manifesting itself by generosity.
of heart - the seat of all physical and spiritual life, the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires appetites, affections, purposes, endeavors; of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.--Matthew 6:22
Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;--Ephesians 6:5
fearing - to be struck with amazement; to reverence, venerate, to treat with deference or reverential obedience.
God.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.--Ecclesiastes 12:13
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