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Let no man deceive you with vain words; for it is on account of these things that the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

For ye were heretofore darkness, but now are ye light in our Lord: therefore, as the children of light, so walk ye.

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

And parents, anger not your children; but train them up in the discipline and doctrine of our Lord.

that ye may be perfect and without blemish, as the sincere children of God, who are resident in a perverse and crooked generation; and that ye may appear among them as luminaries in the world;

For on account of these [fn] , the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

Children, obey your parents in every thing; for this is pleasing before our Lord.

Parents, anger not your children, lest they be discouraged.

But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,

as yourselves know, we entreated each one of you, as a father his children, and comforted your hearts:

For ye are all children of the light, and children of the day; and are not children of the night, and children of darkness.

But let us who are children of the day, be wakeful in mind, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and take the helmet of the hope of life.

Yet she shall live by means of her children, if they continue in the faith, and in love, and in sanctity, and in chastity.

and one that guideth well his own house, and holdeth his children in subjection with all purity.

Let the deacons be such as have each one wife and guide well their children and households.

But if a widow hath children, or grandchildren, let them first learn to show kindness to their own households, and to repay the obligations to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

and hath a reputation for good works; if she have trained up children, if she have entertained strangers, if she have washed the feet of saints, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have walked in every good work.

I would therefore, that the younger women marry, and bear children, and regulate their houses; and that they give no occasion to the adversary for reproach.

him who is blameless, who is the husband of one wife, and hath believing children, who are no revellers, nor ungovernable in sensuality.

making the younger women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,