⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ^(A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

¹⁴ Here ^(A)for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for ^(B)I seek not what is yours but you. For ^(C)children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but ^(D)parents for their children.

⁷ But we were ^(A)gentle^[a] among you, ^(B)like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. ⁸ So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God ^(C)but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

¹¹ For you know how, ^(A)like a father with his children,

^11 (A)Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? ¹² Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ^(B)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a ^(C)nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land ^(D)that you swore to give their fathers?