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neither also are they who are of the seed of Abraham all children; because it was said, In Ishok shall be called unto thee the seed:

but that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of Aloha, but the children of the promise are reckoned the seed.

for it shall be in the place where they were not called my people, there shall they be called the children of Aloha the Living.

Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).

For the man who believeth not is sanctified by the wife who believeth; and any wife who believeth not is sanctified by the husband who believeth; otherwise their children would be unclean; but now are they clean.

MY brethren, be not children in your minds, but in evils be you babes, and in your minds be perfect.

But as unto (my) children, I say to you, Render to me my gains which are with you, and expand your love towards me.

Behold, this is three times that I prepare to come to you, and not to burden you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.

know therefore that they who are of faith are the children of Abraham. [fn]

For you are all the children of Aloha through the faith of Jeshu the Meshiha.

So we also, while children, under the principles of the world were subjected.

My children, with whom I travail afresh until the Meshiha be formed in you,

for Hagar is Mount Sinai which is in Arabia, and answers to this Urishlem, and serves in bondage, she and her children.

But we, my brethren, as Ishak, are the children of promise.

We therefore, my brethren, are not the children of the bondmaid, but the children of the free.

and in love predesignated us unto himself, and constituted us children in Jeshu Meshiha, according to the pleasure of his will;

and that we be no [fn] children, agitated and altered by every wind [fn] of fraudulent doctrines of men, which in their craftiness they fabricate deceptively in order to seduce,

Be therefore imitators of Aloha, as beloved children;

Children, obey your parents in our Lord, for this is right; and this is the first commandment which promiseth.

Parents, make not your children angry, but make them to grow in the discipline and in the doctrine of our Lord.