Ephesians 6
1 Sons, obey ye to your father and mother, in the Lord; for this thing is rightful or is just.
2 Honour thou thy father and mother, that is the first commandment in the promise;
3 that it be well to thee, and that thou be long living on the earth.
4 And, fathers, do not ye provoke your sons to wrath; but nourish ye them in the teaching and chastising or in the discipline and correction of the Lord.
5 Servants, obey ye to fleshly lords with dread and trembling, in simple-ness of your heart, as to Christ;
6 not serving at the eye, as pleasing to men, but as servants of Christ; doing the will of God by discretion,
7 with good will serving as to the Lord, and not as to men;
8 witting that each man, whatever good thing he shall do, he shall receive this of the Lord, whether servant, whether free man.
9 And, ye lords, do the same things to them, forgiving menacings; witting that both their Lord and yours is in heavens, and the taking of persons is not with God.
10 Here afterward, brethren, be ye comforted in the Lord, and in the might of his virtue.
11 Clothe you with the armour of God, that ye may stand against the ambushings, or assailings, of the devil.
12 For why striving or battle is not to us against flesh and blood, but against the princes and potentates, against governors of the world of these darknesses, against spiritual things of wickedness, in heavenly things.
13 Therefore take ye the armour of God, that ye may against-stand in the evil day; and in all things stand perfect.
14 Therefore stand ye, and be girded about your loins in soothfastness, and clothed with the habergeon of rightwiseness,
15 and your feet shod in making ready of the gospel of peace.
16 In all things take ye the shield of faith, in which ye may quench all the fiery darts of him that is most wicked or the worst.
17 And take ye the helmet of health, and the sword of the Ghost, that is, the word of God.
18 By all prayer and beseeching pray ye all time in Spirit, and in him waking in all busyness, and beseeching for all holy men or for all saints.
19 and for me; that word be given to me in opening of my mouth, with trust to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 for which I am set in message in a chain; so that in it I be hardy to speak, as it behooveth me to speak out.
21 And that ye know, what things be about me, what I do, Tychicus, my most dear brother, and true minister in the Lord, shall make all things known to you;
22 whom I sent to you for this same thing, that ye know what things be about us, and that he comfort your hearts.
23 Peace to brethren, and charity, with faith of God our Father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Grace with all men that love our Lord Jesus Christ in uncorruption. Amen, that is, So be it.
Cross-references
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- 1Col 3:20–25, Pro 23:22, Pro 6:20, Col 3:16–17, Pro 1:8, Deu 21:18, Rom 12:2, Lev 19:3
- 2Exo 20:12, Deu 27:16, Mat 15:4–6, Pro 20:20, Mal 1:6, Ezk 22:7, Mrk 7:9–13, Jer 35:18
- 3Deu 5:16, Deu 4:40, Deu 12:28, Deu 12:25, Psa 128:1–2, Jer 42:6, Rut 3:1, Isa 3:10
- 4Col 3:21, Pro 22:6, Pro 29:15, Pro 19:18, Deu 6:7, 2Ti 3:15, Pro 29:17, Pro 23:13–14
- 51Pe 2:18–21, Tit 2:9–10, Col 3:17–24, Psa 86:11, Mal 1:6, Eph 5:22, Php 2:12, 1Ti 6:1–3
- 6Col 3:22–23, 1Th 2:4, Gal 1:10, Eph 5:17, Php 2:12, 1Pe 4:2, Mat 12:50, Mat 7:21
- 7Col 3:23, 1Co 10:31, Eph 6:5–6, 2Ki 5:13, Gen 31:38–40, 2Ki 5:2–3, Gen 31:6
- 8Col 3:24, Luk 14:14, Mat 16:27, 2Co 5:10, Mat 6:4, Pro 11:18, Mat 10:41–42, Luk 6:35
- 9Col 3:25–4:1, Act 10:34, Rom 2:11, Job 31:13–15, Luk 6:31, Deu 10:17, Mat 7:12, Deu 24:14–15
- 10Php 4:13, Isa 40:31, Jos 1:9, 1Co 16:13, 1Pe 5:10, Col 1:11, 2Co 12:9–10, Deu 20:3–4
- 112Co 10:4, Rom 13:12, Eph 6:13, 1Th 5:8, 1Pe 5:8, 2Co 2:11, Eph 4:14, Rom 13:14
- 12Col 1:13, 2Co 4:4, Eph 2:2, Col 2:15, Act 26:18, Eph 1:21, Rom 8:38, 1Co 9:25–27
- 132Co 10:4, Luk 21:36, Eph 6:11–17, Eph 5:16, Rev 3:10, Luk 8:13, Mal 3:2, Col 4:12
- 14Isa 59:17, 1Th 5:8, Isa 11:5, Luk 12:35, 2Co 6:7, 1Pe 1:13, Eph 5:9, Rev 9:17
- 15Isa 52:7, Rom 10:15, 2Co 5:18–21, Hab 3:19, Luk 15:22, Sng 7:1
- 161Pe 5:8–9, 1Jn 5:4–5, Pro 18:10, Psa 56:3–4, Gen 15:1, Psa 56:10–11, 2Co 4:16–18, Heb 11:24–34
- 17Heb 4:12, Isa 59:17, Rev 19:15, 1Th 5:8, Isa 49:2, Rev 2:16, Mat 4:10–11, Hos 6:5
- 181Th 5:17, Col 4:2, Php 4:6, 1Ti 2:1, Jud 1:20, Rom 8:26–27, Mrk 14:38, Luk 21:36
- 19Col 4:3, Act 4:29, 2Th 3:1, 1Th 5:25, Heb 13:18, Act 4:31, 1Th 2:2, Act 13:46
- 202Co 5:20, Col 4:4, 2Ti 2:9, 1Th 2:2, Act 26:29, Php 1:20, 1Jn 3:16, Php 1:7
- 21Act 20:4, 2Ti 4:12, Tit 3:12, Col 4:7–9, 1Ti 4:6, Phm 1:16, 1Pe 5:12, Col 1:7
- 22Col 4:7–8, Php 2:25, 1Th 3:2, 2Th 2:17, Php 2:19, Col 2:2
- 23Gal 6:16, Gal 5:6, 1Pe 5:14, 2Th 3:16, Psa 122:6–9, 1Ti 1:14, 1Co 1:3, Jhn 14:27
- 24Mat 22:37, 1Co 16:22–23, Mat 6:13, 2Co 13:14, 2Co 8:12, Tit 3:15, 2Ti 4:22, Tit 2:7
Topics in this chapter
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Ambassadors, Armor, Benedictions, Breastplate, Children, Commandments, Constancy, Darkness, Dart, Decision, Employer, Example, Faith, Fear, Girdle, God, Gospel, Grace of God, Heart, Helmet, Holy Spirit, Hope, Instruction, Integrity, Intercession, Jesus, the Christ, Judgment, Justification, Liberty, Love, Master, Minister, Christian, Mother, Mysteries, Obedience, Parents, Perseverance, Power, Prayer, Quotations and Allusions, Respect of Persons, Reward, Righteous, Salvation, Satan, Servant, Sincerity, Soldiers, Temptation, Truth, Tychicus, War, Watchfulness, Wisdom, Word of God, Wrestling, Zeal, Religious