And my seed shall serve him; the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord.

And I said, So be it, Lord, for [You said] I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles. And I said, You shall call me Father; and you shall not turn away from Me.

At that time, says the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to Me a people.

They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

And He said, Call his name, Not my people: for you are not My people, and I am not your [God].

Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

But as many as received Him, He gave them the authority to become children of God, to those who believe in His name;

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

so that He might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive the adoption.

Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! On account of this the world does not know you, because it did not know Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

He that overcomes I shall give to him these things, and I shall be God to him, and he shall be to Me a son.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.

And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "He who is and He who was and He who is to come, The Almighty."

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, also the Lamb.