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Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

Although we could have insisted on our own importance as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

just as you know how we treated each one of you, like a father his own children,

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work.

Therefore I want younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach.

If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of dissipation or rebellious.

in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

And again, "I will trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me."

Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these same things, in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance,

like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become when you do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror.

having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!

My little children, I am writing these things to you in order that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one,

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

I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the One who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because 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 have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.