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Children and Parents

(A)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (B)“Honour your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, (C)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Slaves and Masters

(D)Slaves,[a] obey your earthly masters[b] with fear and trembling, (E)with a sincere heart, (F)as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as (G)people-pleasers, but as servants[c] of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:5 Or servants; Greek bondservants; similarly verse 8
  2. Ephesians 6:5 Or your masters according to the flesh
  3. Ephesians 6:6 Or slaves; Greek bondservants