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For the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now they are holy.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men.

And if the ministration of death engraven in letters on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, which was to be abolished: Shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be glorious?

And not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly to the end of that which is abolished.

Now for a recompence of the same, (I speak as to my children) be ye also inlarged.

Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, till Christ be formed in you,

Which things are an allegory; for these are the two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Agar.

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.

(For it is written, Rejoice thou barren, that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; for the desolate hath many more children than she that hath an husband.

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

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the others.

That we may be no longer children, fluctuating to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:

Be ye therefore followers of God, as beloved children: And walk in love,

walk as children of light; (The fruit of the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth:)

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.

For which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: