Then [God] said: "Call his name Lo-Ammi, For you [are] not My people, And I will not be your [God.]

" Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, 'You [are] not My people,' [There] it shall be said to them, '[You are] sons of the living God.'

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

I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth --

and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

"I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty."

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

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.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.