²³ Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

⁶ Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

⁷ Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

⁸ As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

¹⁵ Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

²¹ And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

¹³ Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,

³⁴ Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

⁶ He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

⁵ Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

⁶ And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

⁷ Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

¹⁰ But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

¹⁴⁵ <KOPH> I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

¹⁶ And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

¹⁰ I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

¹ <Of David.> Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name.

⁶ Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.

⁷ For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.

²² Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.