New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 6:1-9

1 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 2Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

4 3Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but 4bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

5 5Slaves, be obedient to those who are your 6masters according to the flesh, with 7fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, 8as to Christ; 6 9not 10by way of eyeservice, as 11men-pleasers, but as 12slaves of Christ, 13doing the will of God from the 14heart. 7With good will 15render service, 16as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 17knowing that 18whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, 19whether slave or free.

9And masters, do the same things to them, and 20give up threatening, knowing that 21both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is 22no partiality with Him.

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Notes

1. Ephesians 6:1 Prov 6:20; 23:22; Col 3:20 ↩
2. Ephesians 6:2 Ex 20:12; Deut 5:16 ↩
3. Ephesians 6:4 Col 3:21 ↩
4. Ephesians 6:4 Gen 18:19; Deut 6:7; 11:19; Ps 78:4; Prov 22:6; 2 Tim 3:15 ↩
5. Ephesians 6:5 Col 3:22; 1 Tim 6:1; Titus 2:9 ↩
6. Ephesians 6:5 I.e. earthly masters, with fear ↩
7. Ephesians 6:5 1 Cor 2:3 ↩
8. Ephesians 6:5 Eph 5:22 ↩
9. Ephesians 6:6 Col 3:22 ↩
10. Ephesians 6:6 Lit according to ↩
11. Ephesians 6:6 Gal 1:10 ↩
12. Ephesians 6:6 1 Cor 7:22 ↩
13. Ephesians 6:6 Mark 3:35 ↩
14. Ephesians 6:6 Lit soul ↩
15. Ephesians 6:7 Lit rendering ↩
16. Ephesians 6:7 Col 3:23 ↩
17. Ephesians 6:8 Col 3:24 ↩
18. Ephesians 6:8 Matt 16:27; 2 Cor 5:10; Col 3:24f ↩
19. Ephesians 6:8 1 Cor 12:13; Col 3:11 ↩
20. Ephesians 6:9 Lev 25:43 ↩
21. Ephesians 6:9 Job 31:13ff; John 13:13; Col 4:1 ↩
22. Ephesians 6:9 Deut 10:17; Acts 10:34; Col 3:25 ↩

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