Ephesians Chapter 6 (New Translation JWET)

Paul’s Letter to those of Magic City

Chapter 6

¹The young must give an ear to your ancestors in the Lord's presence. For it is a duty, ²”You must honor your father and mother,” which is a command (first one with a summons), ³in that fortunately for you, He might have been born and you yourself will be entering into a long lasting dwelling (besides the earth). ⁴Also, the fathers, you were not provoking to anger the youth but you were bringing them up from childhood by training and teaching even Master's warning.

⁵The subjects-slaves must give ear with the lords-masters (according to physical order) with fear and trembling in single-mindedness to the Anointed One ⁶not while being watched as man-pleasers but as citizens-slaves of Anointed One (ones doing the pleasure-will of the God of souls-lives) ⁷with devotion, being a slave-citizen even to the Lord-Master and not to men, ⁸having perceived that each one (if any good thing might be done) this thing he will gain from Lord-Master, either slave or freeman. ⁹ Also the lords-masters, the things you must do in your name, ceasing from threats, having known that even of them and of you the Lord-Master is in heavens and a partiality exists not with Him.

¹⁰Any one remaining must be strengthened with Lord-Master and by His prevailing military force. ¹¹You yourselves must have put on the suit of armor from God towards the one to be made strong enough to have stayed the wiliness of the slanderer-Devil. ¹²So that, it is not for us the battling (in reference to bloodlines even tearing apart the body), but yet with a view to the empires, with a view to the magistrates, with a view to the emperors, from ignorance of this One (with a view to the inflated things of the wickedness in high favor). ¹³Because of this thing you must take up the suit of armor from God, so that you might have been made strong enough to have stood against (in the day) the wickedness even everything, having achieved—to have made to stand. ¹⁴You set in place then, having wrapped around the lower part of your back with truth also having put on the breastplate of the business of a judge ¹⁵and having bound the feet in readiness of the reward of good tidings of the peace ¹⁶with all, having taken up into your hands the shield of that thing entrusted, with it you will be equal (to every missile of the worthless one, the ones having been ignited) to extinguish, ¹⁷also the helmet of the deliverance you yourselves must offer and the short sword of the divine inspiration (this one is a saying of God). ¹⁸Because of every place of prayer and entreaty having been offered, prayers by every vital part with divine inspiration even as far as this having passed sleepless nights with every persistence and entreaty standing over every one devoted to God, ¹⁹even over me. There for me might be given a word with my frankness, out of my mouth with freedom of speech to make known the mystery of the good news.

²⁰Beyond this, I am to be the elder in a chain so that in it I might have spoken freely, thus, it is binding on me to have spoken. ²¹But, so that even you might have perceived these things, about me, any thing I am accomplishing, everything he will make known to you, Tchius, the beloved brother and trusted servant by Lord-Master. ²²He I dispatched to you, to this so that you might know these things about us, and he might have demanded your feelings.

²³Peace to the brothers and love in confidence of God Father and of Lord Savior Anointed One.