Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹  we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

Fathers, ¹  do not provoke your children to anger, ²  but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

He must manage his own household well and keep his children in control without losing his dignity. ¹ 

Deacons must be husbands of one wife ¹  and good managers of their children and their own households.

In this way ¹  they will train ²  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Like obedient children, do not comply with ¹  the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, ² 

I am writing to you, ¹  little children, that ²  your sins have been forgiven because of his ³  name.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness ¹  is righteous, just as Jesus ²  is righteous.

By this ¹  we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear ¹  that my children are living according to the truth. ² 

“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, ¹  Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were ²  gone.” ³ 

“Brother ¹  will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against ²  parents and have them put to death.

“To ¹  what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, ² 

and said, “I tell you the truth, ¹  unless you turn around and become like little children, ²  you will never ³  enter the kingdom of heaven!

Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. ¹  But the disciples scolded those who brought them. ² 

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” ¹ 

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

“Whoever welcomes ¹  one of these little children ²  in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, ¹  “Children, how hard it is ²  to enter the kingdom of God!

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against ¹  parents and have them put to death.