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and [as] a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say [it],) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

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

for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,

for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.