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Ye children, be obedient unto your parents in the Lord, for this is right:

And ye fathers, be not provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

In order that ye may become faultless and inviolate, children of God, blameless amidst a crooked and perverted generation, amongst whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;

Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;

But we became gentle in your midst, - as though, a nursing mother, had been cherishing her own children:

Even as ye know how, unto each one of you, we were as a father unto his own children, consoling you, and soothing, and calling o witness, -

Over his own house, presiding, well, having, children, in submission, with all dignity;

Let, ministers, be husbands of, one wife, over children, presiding, well, and over their own houses;

Howbeit, if, any widow, hath, children or grandchildren, let them be learning - first, unto their own house, to be shewing reverence, and, returns, to be making unto their progenitors; for, this, is acceptable before God;

In noble works, being well-attested; - if she hath nourished children, if she hath shewn hospitality, if, saints feet, she hath washed, if, them who were in tribulation, she hath succoured, if, in every good, work she hath followed on:

I am minded, therefore, that, the younger ones, marry, bear children, be mistress of the house, - giving, no single occasion, unto the opposer, as a cause, of reviling;

If anyone is unaccusable, a husband of, one wife, having children that believe, who are not charged with riotous excess, nor insubordinate;

That they may constrain the young women to be, lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

and again - I, will be confident upon him; and again - Lo! I, and the children which, unto me, God, hath given.

Seeing therefore the children have received a fellowship of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took partnership in the same, - in order that, through death, - he might paralyse him that held the dominion of death, that is, the Adversary, -

As, Sarah, was obedient unto Abraham, calling him, lord, - whose children ye have become - so long as ye are doing good, and not bringing yourselves into fear of any single cause of alarm.

Having, eyes, full of an adulteress, and that cannot rest from sin, enticing unstable souls, having, a heart trained in greed, - children of a curse, -

My dear children! these things, am I writing unto you, in order that ye may not be committing sin. And, if anyone should commit sin, an Advocate, have we, with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous;

I write unto you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven you, for the sake of his name: