"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
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For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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.
See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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.
See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;