Now in return for the same--I speak as to children--you also be opened wide.
3 John 1:4 - English Majority Text Version I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear that my children are walking in truth. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my [spiritual] children are living their lives in the Truth. American Standard Version (1901) Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. Common English Bible I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth. Catholic Public Domain Version I have no greater grace than this, when I hear that my sons are walking in the truth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth. |
Now in return for the same--I speak as to children--you also be opened wide.
But when I saw that they did not act rightly with respect to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live in Gentile fashion and not in Jewish fashion, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you!
as indeed you know how each one of you, as a father to his own children, we exhorted, and comforted you, and imploring you,
To Timothy, a genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if someone should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.