Study Desk

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,' now I tell you the same.

So Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They replied, "No."

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘ You are my Son; today I have fathered you .'

When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

They have been informed about you—that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth—

The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God's children.

And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)—if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.

nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants; rather " through Isaac will your descendants be counted ."

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac—

And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Now as a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts to us also.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

My children—I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!