Isaiah 43:6
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6 I will say to the north, “Give them up,”
and to the south, “Do not withhold;
bring my sons from far away
and my daughters from the end of the earth—(A)
2 Corinthians 6:17-18
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17 Therefore come out from them,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
then I will welcome you,(A)
18 and I will be your father,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”(B)
Jeremiah 3:18-19
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18 In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your ancestors for a heritage.(A)
19 I thought
how I would set you among my children
and give you a pleasant land,
the most beautiful heritage of all the nations.
And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,”
and would not turn from following me.(B)
Jeremiah 3:14
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14 Return, O faithless children,
says the Lord,
for I am your husband;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.(A)
Galatians 3:26-29
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26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.(A) 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.(B) 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.(C) 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,[a] heirs according to the promise.(D)
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- 3.29 Gk seed
Romans 9:7-8
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7 and not all of Abraham’s children are his descendants, but “it is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.”(A) 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
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Hosea 1:10-11
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The Restoration of Israel
10 [a]Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor 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.”(A) 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head, and they shall rise up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.(B)
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- 1.10 2.1 in Heb
Isaiah 18:7
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7 At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from[a] a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.(A)
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- 18.7 Q ms Gk Vg: MT of
Psalm 107:3
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3 and gathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.[a](A)
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- 107.3 Cn: Heb sea
Romans 9:25-26
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25 As he also says in Hosea,
“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”(A)
26 “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they shall be called children of the living God.”(B)
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