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Advice for Children and Parents

Children, obey your parents in the Lord,[a] for this is the right thing to do. “Honor your father and mother…”[b] (This is a very important commandment with a promise.) “…so that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth.”[c]

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training[d] and instructing them about the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:1 Other mss. lack in the Lord
  2. Ephesians 6:2 Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
  3. Ephesians 6:3 Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
  4. Ephesians 6:4 Or discipline

· ho Children teknon, obey hypakouō · ho your hymeis parents goneus in en the Lord kyrios, for gar this houtos is eimi right dikaios. Honor timaō · ho your sy father patēr and kai · ho mother mētēr”— which hostis is eimi the first prōtos commandment entolē with en a promise epangelia that hina it may go ginomai well with you sy and kai that you may live eimi in epi the ho land for a long makrochronios time .” And kai · ho fathers patēr, do not provoke parorgizō · ho your hymeis children teknon to anger , but alla raise ektrephō them autos up in en the discipline paideia and kai admonition nouthesia of the Lord kyrios.

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