²⁶ And,

⁹ And the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi—‘Not my people’—for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.

^10 [a]“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’

3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. ² Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. ³ And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure.

¹⁶ For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.

²⁶ For you are all children^[a] of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁵² And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world.

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah,^[a] the Son of the living God.”