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Colossians 3:17–18
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Colossians 3:17
17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
17And whatsoeuer yee doe in word or deed, doe all in the Name of the Lord Iesus, giuing thankes to God and the Father, by him.
Colossians 3:18
18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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DEFINED WORDS
Colossians 3:17
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
whatsoever
Whatever; anything or everything that, without restriction in the stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
An act or thing done.
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Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
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A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
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The act of offering thanks.
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To express gratitude for a favor; to make acknowledgments to one for kindness bestowed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Colossians 3:18
To yield oneself under the authority, order, or relation named in the verse.
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Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Male spouses; men joined to wives in marriage.
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Suitable, proper, or prepared for a purpose; as a verb, to suit or be suitable.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
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Open the full verse study23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
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Open the full verse study6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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Open the full verse study20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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Open the full verse study18In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Open the full verse study11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
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Open the full verse study18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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Open the full verse study6He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
7For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
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Open the full verse study20¶ And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.
21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
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Open the full verse study5For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
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Open the full verse study9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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Open the full verse study30By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
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Open the full verse study1FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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Open the full verse study11And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Open the full verse study17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
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Open the full verse study17And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
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Open the full verse study12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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Open the full verse study17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
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Open the full verse study11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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Open the full verse study7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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Open the full verse study23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
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Open the full verse study8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study5For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
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Open the full verse study3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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Open the full verse study4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Open the full verse study1LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
6Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
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Open the full verse study16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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Open the full verse study12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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Open the full verse study20And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
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Open the full verse study34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
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Open the full verse study29¶ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Open the full verse study3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
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