Ephesians 6

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

²“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

³“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

⁴You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

⁵Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

⁶not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

⁷with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,

⁸knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

⁹You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹²For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.