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But they have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake the law of Moses, stating that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to follow after the customs of the law.

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, you are the semblance of knowledge and of truth as embodied in the law.

And this Spirit bears witness to our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; so that if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.

Because man himself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Neither, because they are of the seed of Abraham are they all his children: for it was said, In Isaac shall your seed be called.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise who are reckoned as descendants.

Before her children were born, or had done good or evil, the choice of God was made known in advance; that it might stand, not by means of works, but through him who made the choice.

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said you are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

Isaiah also preached concerning the children of Israel: Though the number of children of Israel should be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved.

SO I, my brethren, could not converse with you as with spiritual men, but as with worldly men and even as with little children in Christ.

I do not write these things to make you feel ashamed, but to advise you as beloved children.

For the husband who is not a convert is sanctified through the wife who is a convert, and the wife who is not a convert is sanctified through the husband who is a convert; otherwise, their children would be impure, but in such cases they are pure.

My brethren, be not like infants in your intelligence, only to evil things be like children, but in your understanding be mature.

Now if the ministration of death, as contained in the letter of the law and engraved on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was not lasting:

And not as Moses who put a veil over his face, so that the children of Israel might not look upon the fulness of the glory which was not lasting:

I speak as to my children, render me my reward which is with you, increase your love toward me.

Behold, this is the third time I am prepared to come to you; and I will not burden you; for I seek nothing from you, but yourselves: for children are not under obligation to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

You must know therefore, that those who trust on faith are the children of Abraham.

For you are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.