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- Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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- Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first commandement with promise,)
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- That it may bee well with thee, and thou maiest liue long on the earth.
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- And yee fathers, prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in the nourture and admonition of the Lord.
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- Seruants, bee obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with feare and trembling, in singlenesse of your heart, as vnto Christ:
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- Not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but as the seruants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart:
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- With good will doing seruice, as to the Lord, and not to men,
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- Knowing that whatsoeuer good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receiue of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
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- And ye masters, do the same things vnto them, forbearing threatning: knowing that your master also is in heauen, neither is there respect of persons with him.
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- Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, & in the power of his might.
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- Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the deuill.
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- For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknes of this world, against spirituall wickednes in high places.
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- Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God, that yee may be able to withstand in the euill day, and hauing done all, to stand.
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- Stand therefore, hauing your loynes girt about with trueth, and hauing on the breast-plate of righteousnesse:
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- And your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
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- Aboue all, taking the shielde of Faith, wherewith yee shall bee able to quench all the fierie dartes of the wicked.
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- And take the helmet of saluation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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- Praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseuerance, and supplication for all Saints,
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- And for mee, that vtterance may be giuen vnto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make knowen the mysterie of the Gospel:
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- For which I am an ambassador in bonds, that therein I may speake boldly, as I ought to speake.
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- But that yee also may know my affaires, and how I doe, Tychicus a beloued brother, and faithfull minister in the Lord, shall make knowen to you all things.
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- Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same purpose, that yee might know our affaires, and that he might comfort your hearts.
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- Peace be to the brethren, and loue, with faith from God the Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
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- Grace be with all them that loue our Lord Iesus Christ in sinceritie.Written from Rome vnto the Ephesians by Tychicus.
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