3 John 1:4

Encouragement For Gaius

³ For I rejoiced exceedingly [when the] brothers came and testified [to] your truth, just as you are walking in [the] truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth. ⁵ Dear friend, you act faithfully [in] whatever you do for the brothers, {even though they are strangers}.

My Children

Walk in the Truth

No

Galatians 4:19

My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of [them] all, "If you, [although you] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

1 Timothy 1:2

to Timothy, [my] true child in the faith. Grace, mercy, [and] peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 1:2

to Timothy, [my] dear child. Grace, mercy, [and] peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Kings 2:4

so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.'"

1 Kings 3:6

Then Solomon said, "You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as [it is] this day.

2 Kings 20:3

"O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and [remember] the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah {wept bitterly}.

Psalm 26:1-3

Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.

Proverbs 23:24

The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.

Isaiah 8:18

Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me [are] like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.

Isaiah 38:3

and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your {presence} in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept [with] great weeping.

John 12:35-36

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

1 Corinthians 4:14-15

I am not writing these [things] to shame you, but admonishing [you] as my dear children.