A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek / Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth

by Thomas Haweis

²⁰Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

²¹Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.

²²Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God. ²³And in every thing that ye do, labour from the soul, as for the Lord, and not man; ²⁴knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ. ²⁵But he that is guilty of injustice shall receive punishment for the wrong he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

[CHAP. IV.]

MASTERS, afford to your servants that which is just, and an equivalent, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

²Persevere in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; ³praying also at the same time for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, that I may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains: ⁴that I may make it evident, as I ought to speak.

⁵Walk wisely with regard to those without, redeeming the time. ⁶Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.

⁷All my affairs will Tychicus make known unto you, a beloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord: ⁸whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that he might know your affairs, and comfort your hearts; ⁹with Onesimus, that faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you: they will make known unto you all things that have passed here.

¹⁰There salute you Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner, and Mark nephew to Barnabas, concerning whom ye have received injunctions; if he come unto you, receive him, ¹¹and Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellow-labourers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

¹²Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. ¹³For I bear him witness that he hath great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.