13 Now in return for the same (A)(I speak as to children), you also be open.

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I have no greater (A)joy than to hear that (B)my children walk in [a]truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:4 NU the truth

18 My little children, (A)let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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Confidence and Compassion in Prayer

14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that (A)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

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Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

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Their Spiritual State

12 I write to you, little children,
Because (A)your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.
13 I write to you, fathers,
Because you have known Him who is (B)from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
Because you have overcome the wicked one.
I write to you, little children,
Because you have (C)known the Father.
14 I have written to you, fathers,
Because you have known Him who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
Because (D)you are strong, and the word of God abides in you,
And you have overcome the wicked one.

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The Test of Knowing Christ

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, (A)we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

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And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

(A)“My son, do not despise the [a]chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
For (B)whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:5 discipline

11 as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and [a]charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:11 NU, M implored

19 (A)My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

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12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. (A)You have not injured me at all.

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Paul’s Paternal Care

14 I do not write these things to shame you, but (A)as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for (B)in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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24 Therefore I say to you, (A)whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

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But Jesus said to them, (A)“A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” (B)Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And (C)He marveled because of their unbelief. (D)Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

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19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your [a]unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, (A)if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 17:20 NU little faith

28 And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.”

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10 (A)I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you out of the land of Egypt;
(B)Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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Death of Elisha

14 Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, (A)the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!”

15 And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows. 16 Then he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands. 17 And he said, “Open the east window”; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he said, “The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at (B)Aphek till you have destroyed them. 18 Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped. 19 And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! (C)But now you will strike Syria only three times.”

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(A)But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

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