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For you are all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus.

So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.

For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.

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

So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.

Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

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

And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.