1. Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.
2. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
3. so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.
4. Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
5. Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.
6. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.
7. Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men,
8. knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.
9. And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
10. Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.
11. Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil.
12. For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
13. This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.
14. Stand, therefore,with truth like a belt around your waist,righteousness like armor on your chest,
15. and your feet sandaled with readinessfor the gospel of peace.