2:12I write to you, children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

2:28And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.

3:7Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as *he* is righteous.

3:18Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

4:4*Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

5:21Children, keep yourselves from idols.