Eph 6:1-9 | ESV | STEP | Children , obey your parents in the Lord , for this is right .

a Prov. 1:8; 6:20; 23:22

bCited from Ex. 20:12

c Gen. 18:19; Deut. 4:9; 6:7; 11:19; Ps. 78:4; Prov. 19:18; 22:6; 29:17; [2 Tim. 3:15]

dSee 1 Pet. 2:18

g[2 Cor. 11:3]

h[ch. 5:22]

iSee Gal. 1:10

jSee Ps. 62:12

k Gal. 3:28; Col. 3:11

m Lev. 25:43

n John 13:13; [Job 31:13-15]

pSee Deut. 10:17

Ephesians 6:1-9

Children and Parents

1 ^aChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 ^b“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.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ^cbut bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Bondservants and Masters

5 ^dBondservants, ^{▼▼Or slaves; also verse 6 (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} obey your earthly masters ^{▼▼Or your masters according to the flesh} with fear and trembling, ^gwith a sincere heart, ^has you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as ⁱpeople-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8 ^jknowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, ^kwhether he is a bondservant ^{▼▼Or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} or is free. 9 Masters, do the same to them, ^mand stop your threatening, knowing that ⁿhe who is both their Master ^{▼▼Greek Lord} and yours is in heaven, and that ^pthere is no partiality with him.