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that everything may go well for you, and you may have a long life on earth.” This is an important commandment with a promise.[a]

Fathers, don’t make your children bitter about life. Instead, bring them up in Christian discipline and instruction.

Advice to Slaves and Masters

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with proper respect. Be as sincere as you are when you obey Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:3 The first part of verse 2 (in Greek) has been placed at the end of verse 3 to express the complex Greek sentence structure more clearly in English.

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