3 See what great love^[a] the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created^(A) in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time^(B) for us to do.

²⁵ As it^[a] also says in Hosea,

¹⁹ So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,