2 Corinthians 6:18
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18 (A)and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Samuel 7:14
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14 (A)I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, (B)I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
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John 1:12
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12 But to all who did receive him, (A)who believed in his name, (B)he gave the right (C)to become (D)children of God,
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Jeremiah 31:9
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Revelation 21:7
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7 (A)The one who conquers will have this heritage, and (B)I will be his God and (C)he will be my son.
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Galatians 4:5-7
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5 (A)to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive (B)adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent (C)the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then (D)an heir through God.
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Galatians 3:26
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26 for in Christ Jesus (A)you are all sons of God, through faith.
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Romans 8:29
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29 For those whom he (A)foreknew he also (B)predestined (C)to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be (D)the firstborn among many brothers.
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Romans 8:14-17
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14 For all who are (A)led by the Spirit of God are (B)sons[a] of God. 15 For (C)you did not receive (D)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of (E)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, (F)“Abba! Father!” 16 (G)The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then (H)heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, (I)provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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- Romans 8:14 See discussion on “sons” in the Preface
Isaiah 43:6
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6 I will say to the north, Give up,
and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring (A)my sons from afar
and (B)my daughters from the end of the earth,
Revelation 1:8
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8 (A)“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, (B)“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
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Ephesians 1:5
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5 (A)he predestined us[a] for (B)adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, (C)according to the purpose of his will,
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- Ephesians 1:5 Or before him in love, 5having predestined us
Hosea 1:9-10
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9 And the Lord said, (A)“Call his name Not My People,[a] for (B)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”[b]
10 [c] Yet (C)the number of the children of Israel shall be (D)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (E)And (F)in the place where it was said to them, (G)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (H)“Children[d] of (I)the living God.”
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- Hosea 1:9 Hebrew Lo-ammi, which means not my people
- Hosea 1:9 Hebrew I am not yours
- Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
Jeremiah 31:1
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The Lord Will Turn Mourning to Joy
31 (A)“At that time, declares the Lord, (B)I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
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Jeremiah 3:19
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19 “‘I said,
How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would (A)call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me.
Psalm 22:30
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30 Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming (A)generation;
Genesis 17:1
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Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be (A)blameless,
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- Genesis 17:1 Hebrew El Shaddai
Revelation 21:22
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22 And (A)I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
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1 John 3:1-2
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3 See (A)what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called (B)children of God; and so we are. The reason why (C)the world does not know us is that (D)it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are (E)God's children (F)now, and what we will be (G)has not yet appeared; but we know that (H)when he appears[a] (I)we shall be like him, because (J)we shall see him as he is.
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- 1 John 3:2 Or when it appears
Genesis 48:3
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3 And Jacob said to Joseph, (A)“God Almighty[a] appeared to me at (B)Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
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- Genesis 48:3 Hebrew El Shaddai
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