Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as ...
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life....
See Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Luke 22:14-23. This is language first used in Jeremiah's promise of rescue and renewal of the exiled people of God...
“My presence shall go with you, and I will give you Rest. I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustains me.''...