Among them we also once lived in the passions of our flesh, gratifying the desires and impulses of the flesh, and were by nature children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of wrath, just like everyone else.

So then, brothers, we are not children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of a slave woman but of the free woman.

But you, my brothers, like Isaac, are children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of promise.

For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren woman, you who bear no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in the pain of childbirth! For the children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of the desolate will be more in number than those of the woman who has a husband.

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children (teknōn | τέκνων | gen pl neut).

My little children (tekna | τέκνα | voc pl neut), for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking what you have, but you. For children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) ought not save up for their parents, but the parents for the children (teknois | τέκνοις | dat pl neut).

Now as a fair exchange — I speak as to children (teknois | τέκνοις | dat pl neut) — open wide your hearts to us also.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through union with her husband. Otherwise your children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) would be defiled, but as it is, they are holy.

That is why I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child (teknon | τέκνον | nom sg neut) in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church.