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It enjoins upon him precepts so plain, that the most ignorant cannot fail to understand them: 'Slaves, obey in all things your masters, not with eye service, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. It furnishes him with motives the most impressive and consoling: 'Ye serve, says the Apostle, 'the Lord Christ. It promises him rewards sufficient to stimulate the most indolent to exertion: 'Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. And it holds forth to him an example so glorious, that it would ennoble even angels to imitate it: 'Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a slave!"
"For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh." He was afraid they might not work all the time, so he adds: "Not with the eye-service, as men pleasers, but in the singleness of heart fearing God." Read the twenty-first chapter of Exodus, 7 to 11.
Oh, it wasn't all at once, you know, you can't strangle the soul of a man in a hurry but by the time your sister died, the buildings Joe was putting up were just about as common and cheap as the average play on Broadway crowd pleasers. He had lost his nerve. Everything had to be popular. Play safe each time, on the same old flats that every woman seems to love. A woman is conservative.
Belluomo rises from the bed of his wife's lover's wife, the kerchiefed housewife is astir, a saucer of acetic acid in her hand. In Rodot's Yvonne and Madeleine newmake their tumbled beauties, shattering with gold teeth chaussons of pastry, their mouths yellowed with the pus of flan breton. Faces of Paris men go by, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores. Noon slumbers.
She knew that most servants, while they spoke with the appearance of respect in presence, altered their tone entirely when beyond the circle of the eye theirs was eye service they were men pleasers they were servile. She had overheard her maid speak of her as Lady Clem, and that not without a streak of contempt in the tone.
"Not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart." "Not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart." "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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