Children, Honor Your Parents

6 Children, be obeying your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² “Be honoring your father and mother”— which is the first commandment with a promise— ³ “in order that it may be well with you and you may be long-lived upon the earth” [Deut 5:16].

Fathers, Nourish Your Children In The Lord

⁴ And fathers, do not be provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them in the training^[a] and admonition^[b] of the Lord.

Slaves And Masters, Live As Slaves of Christ

⁵ Slaves, be obeying your masters according-to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ— ⁶ not by way of eye-service as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ serving with good-will as to the Lord and not to people, ⁸ knowing that each one, if he does anything good, will receive this back from the Lord, whether slave or free. ⁹ And masters, be doing the same things to them, giving-up the threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in the heavens, and there is no respect-of-persons with Him.

Finally, Put On The Full Armor of God So You Can Stand Against The Spiritual Forces of Evil

¹⁰ Finally, become-strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. ¹¹ Put-on the full-armor of God so-that you may be able to stand against the schemes^[c] of the devil, ¹² because the struggle^[d] for us is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-powers^[e] of this darkness, against the spiritual forces^[f] of evilness in the heavenly-places. ¹³ For this reason, take-up the full-armor of God in order that you may be able to resist^[g] on the evil day, and having worked^[h] everything, to stand.

Stand Armored With Truth, Righteousness, And Faith, Wielding God’s Word And Prayer

¹⁴ Stand [firm] therefore, having girded^[i] your waist with truth, and having put-on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having sandaled your feet with the readiness^[j] of the good-news of peace, ¹⁶ with all these having taken-up the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword^[k] of ^[l] the Spirit, which is the Word of God, ¹⁸ praying with every-kind-of prayer and petition at every opportunity^[m] in the Spirit, and keeping-alert for it with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints— ¹⁹ and for me, that a word may be given to me in connection with the opening of my mouth with boldness to make-known the mystery of the good-news ²⁰ for the sake of which I am-an-ambassador in a chain, that with^[n] it I may speak-boldly^[o] as I ought-to speak.

Closing Remarks

²¹ Now in order that you also may know the things concerning me, what I am doing, Tychicus will make everything known to you— the beloved brother and faithful minister^[p] in the Lord ²² whom I sent to you for this very reason, in order that you may know the things concerning us and he may encourage your hearts. ²³ Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace be with all the ones loving our Lord Jesus Christ with undecayability^[q].