- 1. Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for this is ryght.
- 2. Honour thy father and mother (whiche is the first commaundement in promise)
- 3. That thou mayest prosper, and lyue long on earth.
- 4. Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lorde.
- 5. Seruauntes obey them that are your bodyly maisters, with feare and tremblyng, in singlenesse of your heart, as vnto Christe.
- 6. Not with seruice vnto the eye, as men pleasers: but as the seruautes of Christ.
- 7. Doyng the wyll of God fro the heart, with good wyll seruyng the Lorde, and not men:
- 8. Knowyng, that whatsoeuer good thyng any man doeth, that shall he receaue agayne of the Lorde, whether [he be] bonde or free.
- 9. And ye maisters do the same thynges vnto them, puttyng away threatnyng: knowyng that your maister also is in heauen, neither is respecte of person with hym.
- 10. Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lorde, & in the power of his might.
- 11. Put on all the armour of God, that ye may stande agaynst the assaultes of the deuyll.
- 12. For we wrastle not agaynst blood & flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly [places.]
- 13. Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the euyll day, and hauing finished all thynges, to stande fast.
- 14. Stande therfore, hauyng loynes girt about with the trueth, and puttyng on the brest plate of righteousnesse,
- 15. And hauyng your feete shodde, in the preparation of the Gospell of peace.
- 16. Aboue all, takyng the shielde of fayth, wherwith ye may quenche all the fierie dartes of the wicked:
- 17. And take the helmet of saluation, and the sworde of the spirite, whiche is the worde of God.
- 18. Praying alwayes in all prayer and supplication in the spirite, and watche thervnto with all instaunce and supplication, for all saintes,
- 19. And for me, that vtteraunce may be geue vnto me, yt I may open my mouth freely, to vtter ye secretes of the Gospell.
- 20. Whereof I am messenger in bondes, that therein I may speake freely, as I ought to speake.
- 21. But yt ye may also knowe my affaires, and what I do, Tichicus a deare brother and faythfull minister in the Lord, shall shewe you all thynges:
- 22. Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same purpose, that ye myght knowe of our affaires, and that he myght comfort your heartes.
- 23. Peace [be] vnto the brethren, and loue, with fayth, from God the father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christe.
- 24. Grace be with all them whiche loue our Lorde Iesus Christe in sinceritie. Amen. [Sent from Rome vnto the Ephesians, by Tichicus.]
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