Colossians 3:17

Whatever they do in word or deed should be done in Jesus' name with thanks to the Father. All of life is to be lived for and through Christ.

Cross-references · 27

• 1 Cor 10:31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
• Col 3:23Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,
• Prov 3:6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
• Eph 5:20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Th 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
• 1 Pet 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
• 1 Jn 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
• Rom 14:6–8He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
• 2 Chr 31:20–21So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Mic 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
• Acts 4:30as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
• 1 Th 4:1–2Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• Phil 2:11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• 2 Th 2:17encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
• Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
• Acts 19:17This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
• Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
• 1 Jn 2:23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
• Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
• Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
• Heb 1:5For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?
• 1 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.

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