¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

¹³ Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.

¹⁹ My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

¹¹ just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and ^[a]imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

² To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² To Timothy, my beloved ^[a]son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Christ Is Our Advocate

2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an ^[a]Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;