G5043–τέκνον–teknon

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

τέκνα tekna “children”τέκνοις· teknois “children;”

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

τέκνα tekna “Children”

This is Hagar; for the name Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage together with her children.

τέκνων teknōn “children”

For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren woman that bearest not, break forth into a joyful cry, thou that dost not travail with child. For the desolate woman has many children--more indeed than she who has the husband."

τέκνα tekna “children”

But you, brethren, like Isaac, are children born in fulfilment of a promise.

τέκνα tekna “children”

Therefore, brethren, since we are not the children of a slave-girl, but of the free woman--

τέκνα tekna “children”

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

τέκνα tekna “children”

Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.

τέκνα tekna “children”

There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.

τέκνα tekna “children”

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

τέκνα, tekna “Children,”

And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.

τέκνα tekna “children”

so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless--irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world,

τέκνα tekna “children”

But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

τέκνον teknon “a child”

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

τέκνα, tekna “Children,”

Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.

τέκνα tekna “children”

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

τέκνα, tekna “children,”

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

τέκνα tekna “children”

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.

τέκνῳ teknō “child”

This is the charge which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, in accordance with the inspired instructions concerning you which were given me long ago, that being equipped with them as your armour you may be continually fighting the good fight,

τέκνον teknon “[my] child”

but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity.

τέκνα tekna “children”

A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.

τέκνων teknōn “[their] children”

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

τέκνα tekna “children”

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

τέκνῳ· teknō “child:”

You then, my child, must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

τέκνον teknon “child”

To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

τέκνῳ teknō “child”