I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.

He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?