When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

"Rabbi," they said, "Moses made it a law for us: 'If a man's brother should die and leave a wife, but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.'

and a man from the crowd called out, "Rabbi, I beg you to pity my son, for he is my only child.

If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.