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and Jesus having called them near, said, `Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

`Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.

but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

that is, the children of the flesh -- these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

Not [as] putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;