See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children---and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

then your name will be remembered in my Temple and among my people longer than if you had sons and daughters. You will never be forgotten."

Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.

For the Spirit that God has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead, the Spirit makes you God's children, and by the Spirit's power we cry out to God, "Father! my Father!"

I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

It is through faith that all of you are God's children in union with Christ Jesus.

To show that you are his children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who cries out, "Father, my Father."

How wonderful are the good things you keep for those who honor you! Everyone knows how good you are, how securely you protect those who trust you.

I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

However, as the scripture says, "What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him."

What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me.

And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble.

But who will be able to endure the day when he comes? Who will be able to survive when he appears? He will be like strong soap, like a fire that refines metal.

Your real life is Christ and when he appears, then you too will appear with him and share his glory!

In the same manner Christ also was offered in sacrifice once to take away the sins of many. He will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are waiting for him.

But I will see you, because I have done no wrong; and when I awake, your presence will fill me with joy.

Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.

Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.

Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever.

"Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!

"Father! You have given them to me, and I want them to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, the glory you gave me; for you loved me before the world was made.

What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me.

All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.

So we are always full of courage. We know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord's home.

We are full of courage and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and be at home with the Lord.