Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 7 Holy Bible
with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:
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Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:
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serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;
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With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
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with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;
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with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. Some join the last words of the preceding verse to this clause, "from the heart with good will," etc., on the ground that it is not needed for ver. 6, for if you do the will of God at all, you must do it from the heart. But one may do the will of God in a sense outwardly and formally, therefore the clause is not superfluous in ver. 6, whereas, if one does service with good will, one surely does it from the heart, so that the clause would be more superfluous here. Jesus is the Overlord of every earthly lord, and his follower has but to substitute him by faith for his earthly master to enable him to do service with good will.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.--Here we ascend to a still higher quality than "singleness of heart." To do service "with good will," that is, gladly and cheerfully, "counting it joy to spend and to be spent" in the service, is really to serve, not as a slave, but as a freeman. Only so far as in the relation of slaves to masters there is, or has been, any shadow of the filial and parental relation, is this possible on merely human grounds. But St. Paul urges, in 1Corinthians 7:22, that the slave "when called in the Lord, becomes the Lord's freeman," entering a "service which is perfect freedom." That conception, logically worked out, has ultimately destroyed slavery. Meanwhile it gave to the slave in his slavery--lightened though not yet removed--the power of service "with good will, as to the Lord."
