1Children, 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 live long in the land."

4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

6not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

7rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

8knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

9Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.