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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Ephesians 6:1–9
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“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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Verse 2. With a promise. This commandment being delivered with a special promise of a long life, which promise is to be understood conditionally, especially in regard to Christians, that is unless it be a greater favour to be taken out of the world young. Witham.
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“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
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You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
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Verse 5. Your carnal; temporal masters, whether Christians or heathens. Witham.
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not 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,
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Verse 6. Not serving to the eye; to please men only, but to do the will of God. Witham.
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with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,
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knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
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9
You 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.
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Verse 9. Forbearing threatenings; forbearing, and remitting the punishments which you might perhaps threaten them with, and they deserve. Witham.
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