Now to give me back payment of the same sort I am talking as to my children, let your hearts be wide open to me.
I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.
My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;
My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,
Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.