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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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.

Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

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

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to 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 the desolate hath many more children than she who hath a husband.

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

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

Having predestinated us to the adoption of children to himself by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

In which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

For ye were sometime darkness, but now [are ye] 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 bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

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