²⁶ and,

⁹ Then the Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.^[a](A)

¹⁰ “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.^(B) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’^(C)

3 See what great love^(A) the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!^(B) And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.^{(C) 2} Dear friends,^(D) now we are children of God,^(E) and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,^[a](F) we shall be like him,^(G) for we shall see him as he is.^{(H) 3} All who have this hope in him purify themselves,^(I) just as he is pure.^(J)

²⁶ So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God^(A) through faith,

¹⁸ And,

¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit^(A) that we are God’s children.^(B)

⁵² and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.^(A)

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”^(A)