Hosea 1:10
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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”
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- Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
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.”
Galatians 4:6-7
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6 And because you are sons, God has sent (A)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 (B)an heir through God.
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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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Romans 9:25-28
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25 As indeed he says in Hosea,
(A)“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
26 (B)“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called (C)‘sons of the living God.’”
27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (D)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (E)only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”
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- Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel
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
1 Peter 2:9-10
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9 But you are (A)a chosen race, (B)a royal (C)priesthood, (D)a holy nation, (E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you (F)out of darkness into (G)his marvelous light. 10 (H)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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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,
Isaiah 66:20
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20 (A)And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations (B)as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
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Hosea 2:23
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23 and (A)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And (B)I (C)will have mercy on No Mercy,[a]
and (D)I will say to Not My People,[b] (E)‘You are my people’;
and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”
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- Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
- Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi
Isaiah 60:4-22
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4 (A)Lift up your eyes all around, and see;
they all gather together, they come to you;
(B)your sons shall come from afar,
and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
5 Then you shall see and (C)be radiant;
your heart shall thrill and exult,[a]
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
(D)the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
6 A multitude of camels shall cover you,
the young camels of (E)Midian and (F)Ephah;
all those from (G)Sheba shall come.
(H)They shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of (I)Kedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of (J)Nebaioth shall minister to you;
(K)they shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
(L)and I will beautify my beautiful house.
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and (M)like doves to their windows?
9 For (N)the coastlands shall hope for me,
(O)the ships of Tarshish first,
(P)to bring your children from afar,
their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel,
because (Q)he has made you beautiful.
10 (R)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
and (S)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (T)Your gates shall be open continually;
day and night they shall not be shut,
(U)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession.
12 (V)For the nation and kingdom
that will not serve you shall perish;
those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13 (W)The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress, the plane, and (X)the pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 (Y)The sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending low to you,
(Z)and all who despised you
shall bow down at your feet;
(AA)they shall call you the City of the Lord,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 (AB)Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
with no one passing through,
(AC)I will make you majestic forever,
a joy from age to age.
16 (AD)You shall suck the milk of nations;
you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that (AE)I, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, (AF)the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
(AG)and your taskmasters righteousness.
18 (AH)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
(AI)you shall call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
19 (AJ)The sun shall be no more
your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
give you light;[b]
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.[c]
20 Your sun shall no more go down,
nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and (AK)your days of mourning shall be ended.
21 (AL)Your people shall all be righteous;
(AM)they shall possess the land forever,
(AN)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I might be glorified.[d]
22 (AO)The least one shall become a clan,
and the smallest one a mighty nation;
(AP)I am the Lord;
in its time I will hasten it.
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- Isaiah 60:5 Hebrew your heart shall tremble and grow wide
- Isaiah 60:19 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Targum add by night
- Isaiah 60:19 Or your beauty
- Isaiah 60:21 Or that I might display my beauty
Genesis 13:16
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16 (A)I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Hosea 1:9
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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]
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Genesis 22:17
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17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring (A)as the stars of heaven and (B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess (C)the gate of his[a] enemies,
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- Genesis 22:17 Or their
Hebrews 11:12
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12 Therefore from one man, and (A)him as good as dead, were born descendants (B)as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
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Genesis 32:12
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12 But (A)you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
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Jeremiah 33:22
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22 As (A)the host of heaven cannot be numbered and (B)the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
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Isaiah 48:19
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19 (A)your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
Isaiah 49:17-22
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17 Your builders make haste;[a]
(A)your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 (B)Lift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
(C)As I live, declares the Lord,
(D)you shall put them all on as an ornament;
you shall bind them on as a bride does.
19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
and your devastated land—
(E)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 (F)The children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
(G)‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart:
‘Who has borne me these?
(H)I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”
22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
(I)and raise my signal to the peoples;
(J)and they shall bring your sons in their arms,[b]
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
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- Isaiah 49:17 Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste
- Isaiah 49:22 Hebrew in their bosom
Isaiah 54:1-3
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The Eternal Covenant of Peace
54 (A)“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of (B)the desolate one (C)will be more
than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.
2 (D)“Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
3 (E)For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.
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