So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.

I put this charge before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, in order that with such encouragement you may fight the good fight.

Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne,

Now the dragon’s tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.