17 Bible Verses about Children In The Faith

To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains--I mean Onesimus.

But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

For this reason I have sent Timothy to you. Spiritually he is my dearly-loved and faithful child. He will remind you of my habits as a Christian teacher--the manner in which I teach everywhere in every Church.

and again, "As for Me, I will be one whose trust reposes in God;" and again, "Here am I, and here are the children God has given Me."

The children of your elect sister send greetings to you.

I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

This is the charge which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, in accordance with the inspired instructions concerning you which were given me long ago, that being equipped with them as your armour you may be continually fighting the good fight,

To Timothy my dearly-loved child. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

You then, my child, must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

The Church in Babylon, chosen like yourselves by God, sends greetings, and so does Mark my son.

Dear children, I write thus to you in order that you may not sin. If any one sins, we have an Advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ the righteous;

I am writing to you, dear children, because for His sake your sins are forgiven you.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the very beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.