And in just requital –I speak as to my children– let your hearts expand also.
That is why I tell you, as to whatever you pray and make request for, if you believe that you have received it it shall be yours.
Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me.
you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.
For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,
Dear children, I write thus to you in order that you may not sin. If any one sins, we have an Advocate with the Father–Jesus Christ the righteous;
Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.
Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.