³¹ But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.

¹⁶ For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

²⁶ Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.

²⁸ There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

⁹ Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.

¹⁴ And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

¹⁵ For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

¹⁶ The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

¹⁵ He says to them, But who do you say that I am?

¹⁶ And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

¹⁷ And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.

¹⁸ And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

¹⁶ The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

¹ See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

⁷ So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

¹² To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

¹³ Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

¹⁴ And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

¹⁰ In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

⁸ But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

⁹ And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

⁴ But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁵ That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.

¹⁰ But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God