⁷ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

² Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁰ I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: