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“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’
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my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
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And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
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When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
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The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
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But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
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They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
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and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
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Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
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children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
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You are doing the works of your own father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
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and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
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The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
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“Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
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For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
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Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
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In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.
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and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
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Children of God
Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.
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So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,
