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So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Again he says, "I will be confident in him," and again, " Here I am , with the children God has given me ."

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

So in fact children were fathered by one man—and this one as good as dead—like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children—and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness—the one who does not love his fellow Christian—is not of God.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.