Ephesians 6:7
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
KJV
μετ’ εὐνοίας δουλεύοντες, ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνθρώποις,
Greek NT
cum bona voluntate servientes, sicut Domino, et non hominibus :
Vulgate
with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:
ASV
With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δουλεύω
douleuo
verb · 25×
εὔνοια
eunoia
noun · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Q. What does the third request mean? A. Your will be done, on earth as in heaven means: Help us and all people to reject our own wills and to obey your will without any back talk. Your will alone is good. Help us one and all to carry out the work we are called to, as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
- 2Kgs 5:2 — And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
- 2Kgs 5:13 — And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash,
- Acts 20:19 — Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
- Col 3:23 — And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
- Eph 6:5 — 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;
- Gen 31:6 — And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
- Gen 31:38 — This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.