not while being watched[a], as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart, serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people, because you[b] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do,[c] this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:6 Literally “with eye service”
  2. Ephesians 6:8 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
  3. Ephesians 6:8 Some manuscripts have “if he should do anything good”