Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born from God, and everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who is begotten from Him.

Even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a share and a name better than that of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

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

For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed unto us.

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

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!

How great is Your goodness, which You have treasured up for those who fear You, which You have done for those who trust in You before the sons of men!

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed unto us.

But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it dawned upon the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know just as I also am fully known.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is achieving for us a surpassing and eternal weight of glory,

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who will stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fuller's soap.

When Christ who is our life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, without sin, unto salvation.

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with the image of You.

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the Man of Heaven.

who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, I shall see God:

You will make known to Me the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You gave Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know just as I also am fully known.

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

We are confident, yes, preferring rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.