1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise,
3. “so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
4. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
5. Servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,
6. not serving when eyes are on you, but as pleasing men as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
7. with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,