New American Standard Bible 2020

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 9eye-service, as 10people-pleasers, but as 11slaves of Christ, 12doing the will of God from the 13heart. 7With goodwill 14render service, 15as to the Lord, and not to people, 8 16knowing that 17whatever good thing each one does, he will receive this back from the Lord, 18whether slave or free.

9And masters, do the same things to them, and 19give up threatening, knowing that 20both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is 21no 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, as in first-century Roman culture ↩
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 I.e., only when the master is watching ↩
10. Ephesians 6:6 Gal 1:10 ↩
11. Ephesians 6:6 1 Cor 7:22 ↩
12. Ephesians 6:6 Mark 3:35 ↩
13. Ephesians 6:6 Lit soul ↩
14. Ephesians 6:7 Lit rendering ↩
15. Ephesians 6:7 Col 3:23 ↩
16. Ephesians 6:8 Col 3:24 ↩
17. Ephesians 6:8 Matt 16:27; 2 Cor 5:10; Col 3:24f ↩
18. Ephesians 6:8 1 Cor 12:13; Col 3:11 ↩
19. Ephesians 6:9 Lev 25:43 ↩
20. Ephesians 6:9 Job 31:13ff; John 13:13; Col 4:1 ↩
21. Ephesians 6:9 Deut 10:17; Acts 10:34; Col 3:25 ↩

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