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and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be 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 your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.

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

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

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

So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust 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 no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

For you 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.

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

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