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Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time . And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed to you,

for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and she slaves with her children),

for it has been written, "Be glad, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, the one not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate rather than she having the husband." Isa. 54:1

But, brothers, we are children of promise according to Isaac.

Then, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.

among whom we also all conducted ourselves in times past in the lusts of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of the understanding, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest.

Then become imitators of God, as beloved children,

for you then were darkness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.

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

And fathers, do not provoke your children, but nurture them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God, without fault in the midst of a crooked generation, even having been perverted, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they may not be disheartened.

But we were gentle in your midst, even as a nurse should warmly cherish her children.

even as you know each one of you how, as a father to his children, exhorting and consoling you,

ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all respect.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their own houses and children well.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be godly to their own house and to make a return payment to their forebears, for this is good and pleasing before God.

being witnessed by good works, if she brought up children, if she hosted strangers, if she washed the feet of the saints, if she relieved afflicted ones, if she followed after every good work.