1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2. Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
3. that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
5. Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6. not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7. with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:
8. knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
9. And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.
10. Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13. Wherefore take up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
14. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,