17 Bible Verses about Children In The Faith
Most Relevant Verses
To Timothy, my true Child in the Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.
To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace.
I plead with you for this Child of mine, Onesimus, to whom, in my parson, I have become a Father.
But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the Good News.
This is my reason for sending Timothy to you. He is my own dear faithful child in the Master's service, and he will remind you of my methods of teaching the Faith of Christ Jesus-methods which I follow everywhere in every Church.
And again-- 'As for me, I will put my trust in God.' And yet again-- 'See, here am I and the children whom God gave me.'
It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.
You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.
This, then, is the charge that I lay upon you, Timothy, my Child, in accordance with what was predicted of you--Fight the good fight in the spirit of those predictions,
Do you, then, my Child, find strength in the help which comes from the union with Christ Jesus;
Your sister-Church in 'Babylon' sends you greeting, and so does Mark, who is as a son to me.
My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous--
I am writing, Children, to you, because your sins have been forgiven you for Christ's sake.
I am writing, Fathers, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the Beginning. I am writing, Young Men, to you, because you have conquered the Evil One. I write, Children, to you, because you have learned to know the Father.
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to hear from time to time that the lives of my Children are guided by the Truth.
