how, as you know, we treated each one of you as a father would treat his own children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut).

Although we could have made demands as apostles of Christ, we were gentle among you, like a mother tenderly nursing her own children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut).

Fathers, do not provoke your children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut), your lest they become discouraged.

Children (tekna | τέκνα | voc pl neut), obey your parents in everything, for this for is pleasing is in the Lord.

But you know Timothy’s proven character, how as a child (teknon | τέκνον | nom sg neut) with his father he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel.

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the universe,

And fathers, do not provoke your children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut) to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Children (tekna | τέκνα | voc pl neut), obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of light

Therefore be imitators of God as his dear children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut),