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When we had come to the end of those days, we departed and went on our way; and they all accompanied us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city. And we knelt down on the shore and prayed.

but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

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

because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called." Genesis 21:12">[fn]

That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: Isaiah 10:22, 23">[fn] "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,The remnant will be saved.

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.

But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,

unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.

Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.

Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children--

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.