Add parallel Print Page Options

As for parents, don’t provoke your children to anger, but raise them with discipline and instruction about the Lord.

As for slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling and with sincere devotion to Christ. Don’t work to make yourself look good and try to flatter people, but act like slaves of Christ carrying out God’s will from the heart.

Read full chapter

Fathers,[a] do not exasperate your children;(A) instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.(B)

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect(C) and fear, and with sincerity of heart,(D) just as you would obey Christ.(E) Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ,(F) doing the will of God from your heart.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:4 Or Parents