1. The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
2. honour thy father and mother,
3. which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
4. And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
5. The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;
6. not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
7. with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,
8. having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.
9. And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.
10. As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;