Ephesians 6:1-9

Williams(i) 1 Children, obey your parents, for this is right. 2 "You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good 3 "so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth." 4 You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves. 5 You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ, 6 not serving them as though they were watching you, but as true slaves of Christ, trying to carry out the will of God. 7 Heartily and cheerfully keep on working as slaves, as though it were for the Lord and not for men, 8 for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done. 9 You slave-owners, too, must maintain the same attitude toward your slaves, and stop threatening them, for you know that their real Lord and yours is in heaven, and that He never shows partiality.