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My little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be a reality in you,

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and surrenders to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

For as it is written, Make merry, O you barren who bear not; rejoice and cry, O you who travail not; for the children of the forsaken are more numerous than the children of the one who is favored.

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

So then, my brethren, we are not children of the maidservant but children of the freewoman.

In which you previously walked according to the worldly course of this world, and according to the will of the supreme ruler of the air, the spirit which is active in the children of disobedience.

In those very deeds in which we were also corrupted from the very beginning through the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the wills of the flesh and of the mind: thereby we became completely the children of wrath, even as others.

Thus from henceforth you are neither strangers, nor foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and children of the household of God;

That we henceforth be not as children easily stirred and carried away by every wind of false doctrines of men who through their craftiness are artful in deceiving the people;

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things the anger of God comes on the children of disobedience.

For previously you were ignorant, but now you have been enlightened by our LORD, and should live therefore like children of light.

CHILDREN, obey your parents in our LORD, for this is right.

And parents, do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and teaching of our LORD.

That you may be sincere and blameless, like the innocent children of God, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world:

And it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto our LORD.

Parents, do not provoke your children, that they may not be discouraged.

But we were meek when we were among you, and like a foster mother who loves her children:

You know how we exhorted and encouraged and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,

You are all the children of light, and the children of the day; and you are not the children of the night, nor the children of darkness.