1. As for children, obey your parents in the Lord, because it is right.
2. The commandment Honor your father and mother is the first one with a promise attached:
3. so that things will go well for you, and you will live for a long time in the land.
4. As for parents, don’t provoke your children to anger, but raise them with discipline and instruction about the Lord.
5. As for slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling and with sincere devotion to Christ.
6. Don’t work to make yourself look good and try to flatter people, but act like slaves of Christ carrying out God’s will from the heart.