You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ephesians 6:4 in context
Ephesians 6:1–7
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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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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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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with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,
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