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in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of [their] husbands, lovers of [their] children,

and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who [is] in you, than he who is in the world.

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,