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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.