3 John 1:4

Weymouth NT

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 6:13

And in just requital –I speak as to my children– let your hearts expand also.

Galatians 2:14

As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, »If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?

Galatians 4:19

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,

1 Timothy 1:2

To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 1:2

To Timothy my dearly-loved child. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Philemon 1:10

I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains–I mean Onesimus.

1 John 2:1

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;

2 John 1:4

It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father.