“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.” Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,
and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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