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And not only this, but also when Rebecca conceived children by one man, Isaac our father—

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Brothers, do not become children in your understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in your understanding be mature.

Now the same way in exchange (I am speaking as to children), you open wide your hearts also.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!

which things are spoken allegorically, for these women are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery, who is Hagar.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren woman, who does not give birth to children; burst out and shout, you who do not have birth pains, because many are the children of the desolate woman, even more than those of the one who has a husband."

But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female slave but of the free woman.

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of them were.

Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,

for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.