Bible Text: April 27, 2008

 

Ephesians 6

Children and Parents

 1^(A) Children, 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." 4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger,^(C) but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Slaves and Masters

 5^(D) Slaves,^[a] obey your earthly masters^[b] with fear and trembling,^(E) with a sincere heart,^(F) as you would Christ, 6not by the way of eye-service, as^(G) people-pleasers, but as servants^[c] of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8^(H) knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord,^(I) whether he is a slave or free. 9Masters, do the same to them,^(J) and stop your threatening, knowing that^(K) he who is both their Master^[d] and yours is in heaven, and that^(L) there is no partiality with him.