Anthropareskos describes conduct marked by seeking human approval through outward service rather than sincere obedience.

Across both occurrences, the term describes outward service aimed at human approval, set against sincere, wholehearted obedience in instructions to slaves.

1. Outward service aimed at human approval · dominant

   In Colossians 3:22, the nominative plural masculine form occurs in the contrast between "eye-service" and "sincerity of heart" in slaves' obedience to earthly masters. In Ephesians 6:6, the same form is again contrasted with eye-service as slaves are told to do God's will "from the soul."

   Colossians 3:22Ephesians 6:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "people-pleasers" in both Colossians 3:22 and Ephesians 6:6, within each verse's contrast between eye-service and wholehearted obedience. This rendering is read alongside the clause rather than as a precise lexical equation.