1. Children, obey your parents [in the Lord], for this is right.
2. “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise,
3. “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on earth.”
4. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up with the training and instruction of the Lord.
5. Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ,
6. not only when being watched, as currying favor, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
7. willingly serving the Lord and not human beings,