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And Isaiah proclaimed concerning the children of Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel should be as the sand on the sea, a remnant of them will live.

if, perhaps, I may provoke emulation in the children of my flesh, and may vivify some of them.

I write these things, not to shame you; but I instruct you, as dear children.

For the husband who believeth not, is sanctified by the wife that believeth; and the wife who believeth not, is sanctified by the husband that believeth: otherwise their children would be impure; but now are they pure.

My brethren, be ye not children in your thoughts; but to evil things be ye infants; and in your thoughts be men.

Now if the ministration of death was engraved upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look on the face of Moses, on account of the glory upon his face which vanished away;

and are not like Moses, who threw a vail over his face, that the children of Israel might not behold the termination of that which was abolished.

13 I speak as to [fn] children, Pay me the debt which ye owe, and expand your love towards me.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours, but you: for children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.

Know ye, therefore, that those who are of faith, they are the children of Abraham.

For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.

So also we, while we were children, were in subordination under the elements of the world.

[Ye are] my children, of whom I travail in birth again, till the Messiah be formed in you [fn] {Ye are}

For Hagar is the mount Sinai in Arabia, and correspondeth with the present Jerusalem, and is serving in bondage, she and her children.

For it is written, Be joyful, thou barren, who bearest not: exult and shout, thou who hast not travailed: for more numerous are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman.

Now we, my brethren, like Isaac, are the children of the promise.

in the which ye before walked, according to the worldliness of this world, and according to the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air, that spirit which is active in the children of disobedience:

in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest.

and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty:

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children: