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

Love for the Church

^14 (A)Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for ^(B)I do not seek yours, but you. ^(C)For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

The Test of Knowing Christ

2 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.

⁴ I have no greater ^(A)joy than to hear that ^(B)my children walk in ^[a]truth.