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that you may be perfect and without spot, as the pure children of Aloha, who dwell in a generation depraved and perverse; and be manifest among them as luminaries in the world,

Children, obey your parents in every thing, for so it is pleasing before our Lord.

Fathers, exasperate not your children, that they be not discouraged.

but we were humble among you, and, as a nurse who loveth her children,

As you know how every one of you, as a father his children, we exhorted, and spoke with your hearts;

But she is saved by her children, if they continue in faith, and in love, and in sanctification, and in chastity.

and (one who) ruleth his house well, holding his children in subjection with all purity.

12 The ministers [fn] shall be (of them) severally who have one wife, and shall rule each his children and his household well.

And if there be a widow who hath children, or children's children, let them learn first to do justly for their families, and to repay the debts (owing) to their parents; for this is acceptable before Aloha.

For if a man hath not care of them who are his own, and especially of them who are children of the household of faith, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than those who believe not.

and who hath the testimony of good works: if she have brought up children, if she have received guests, if she have washed the feet of the saints, if she have cheered the afflicted, if she have walked in every gracious work.

I will therefore that those who are young should marry, and bear children, and conduct their households,

Him who is without blame, and is [fn] the husband of one wife, and who hath believing children, who are not vicious nor addicted to intemperance.

making those who are young modest, to love their husbands and their children,

And ye have forgotten the instruction of him who, as unto children, hath said to you, My son, contemn not the discipline of the Lord, and let not thy soul fail when by him thou art corrected:

for whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth, and scourgeth those children in whom he taketh pleasure.

Endure, therefore, correction, because Aloha acteth towards you as with children: for who is a son whom his father doth not correct?

And if ye be without the correction with which every one is corrected, ye are aliens, and not children.

as obedient children, and not partaking again of the former desires which you desired when ignorant.

13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who hath been from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked. I have written to you, children [fn] because you have known the Father.