Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

Urge bondslaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Well pleasing

so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,

to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent,

a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

General references

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons or our daughters,