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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.

And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition 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 is well-pleasing in the Lord.

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

We might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ; but we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:

as you know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children,

one that rules well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

well reported of for good works; if she has brought up children, if she has used hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Look, I and the children whom God has given me.

Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nothing him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. And if any man sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: