Ephesians 6:1-13 ▼

1 The children: obey your parents in the LORD, for this is right;

2 honor your father and mother,

3 which is the first command with a promise, “That it may be well with you, and you may live a long time on the land.”

4 And the fathers: do not provoke 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 [your] soul,

7 serving with goodwill, as to the LORD, and not to men,

8 having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he will receive from the LORD, whether servant or freeman.

9 And the masters! Do the same things to them, letting threatening alone, having also known that your Master is in the heavens, and favor by appearance is not with Him.

10 As to the rest, my brothers, be strong in the LORD, and in the power of His might;

11 put on the whole armor of God, so you are able to stand against the schemes of the Devil,

12 because our wrestling is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual [forces] of evil in the heavenly [places];

13 because of this take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and having done all things—to stand.