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 10:31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
• Col 3:23And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
• Prov 3:6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
• Eph 5:20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
• 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
• 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• Rom 14:6–8He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.
• 2 Chr 31:20–21Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Mic 4:5Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
• Acts 4:30while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
• 1 Th 4:1–2Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• Phil 2:11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• 2 Th 2:17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Acts 19:17This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• 1 Jn 2:23Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
• Matt 28:19Go, 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, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
• Heb 1:5For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
• 1 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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