²⁶ "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

⁶ I will tell the north, Give up; and to the south, Don't keep back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

⁹ He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi{Lo-Ammi means "not my people"}; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

¹⁸ I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

²⁶ For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹ Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

³ Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.