For this reason I kneel before the Father,

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

“that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”