3 John 1:4

Encouragement For Gaius

³ For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth. ⁵ Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).

My Children

Walk in the Truth

No

Galatians 4:19

My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, "If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

1 Timothy 1:2

to Timothy, my genuine 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

and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 'If your descendants watch their step and live faithfully in my presence with all their heart and being, then,' he promised, 'you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

1 Kings 3:6

Solomon replied, "You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.

2 Kings 20:3

"Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Psalm 26:1-3

By David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have integrity, and I trust in the Lord without wavering.

Proverbs 23:24

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

Isaiah 8:18

Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

Isaiah 38:3

"Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

John 12:35-36

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. 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 to correct you as my dear children.