Ephesians 6:1-9

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

² “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

³ “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

⁵ Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

⁶ not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

⁷ rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

⁸ knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.

⁹ Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master^[c] and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.