I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].

To Timothy, a genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

To Titus, a genuine child according to [our] common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I begot in my bonds,

I, Paul, am writing with my own hand. I will repay--lest I say to you that even yourself you owe to me!

Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if someone should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols. Amen.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have You afflicted Your servant, and why have I not found grace in Your sight, that You should lay the weight of this people upon me?

Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? That You say to me, Take them into your bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which You swore to their fathers?

the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form [Him] with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.

And being in agony, He prayed more fervently. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down onto the ground.

For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.

But even if I am being poured upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice; [yea], and I rejoice with you all.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have concerning you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up both prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears to the [One] who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His fear of God,

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman having been clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

And being pregnant, she was crying out, being in labor and being in great pain to give birth.

Because whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for [its] lusts.

and that you put on the new man which was created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

and have put on the new man who is renewed in full knowledge according to the image of Him who created it,