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Children and Parents

Children, obey your parents in the Lord,[a] for this is right. ‘Honour your father and mother’—this is the first commandment with a promise: ‘so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.’

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:1 Other ancient authorities lack in the Lord

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