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Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

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

Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she 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 more are the children of the desolate than of her which hath the husband.

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

Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

For ye were once 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, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

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

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,