2 Corinthians 6:13

Afflictions Of God's Servants

¹² You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections. ¹³ Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also. ¹⁴ Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

In Like Manner

Let Us

My Children

2 Kings 13:14-19

When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Psalm 81:10

“I, the Lord, am your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Matthew 9:28-29

When He entered the house, the blind men came up to Him, and Jesus *said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They *said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

Matthew 17:19-20

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not drive it out?”

Mark 6:4-6

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

Mark 11:24

Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.

1 Corinthians 4:14-15

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

Galatians 4:12

I beg of you, brethren, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;

Galatians 4:19

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

1 Thessalonians 2:11

just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

Hebrews 12:5-6

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

James 1:6-7

But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

1 John 2:12-14

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake.

1 John 3:7

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

1 John 5:14-15

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.