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if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,

And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me.

Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil;

as children of obedience, not conformed to [your] former lusts in your ignorance;

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.

having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;

My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous;

I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked [one]. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

Little children, it is [the] last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.

And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as *he* is righteous.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

*Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Children, keep yourselves from idols.