New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 6:4-9

4 1Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but 2bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

5 3Slaves, be obedient to those who are your 4masters according to the flesh, with 5fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, 6as to Christ; 6 7not 8by way of eyeservice, as 9men-pleasers, but as 10slaves of Christ, 11doing the will of God from the 12heart. 7With good will 13render service, 14as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 15knowing that 16whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, 17whether slave or free.

9And masters, do the same things to them, and 18give up threatening, knowing that 19both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is 20no partiality with Him.

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Notes

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

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