Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for {\i our} adoption, {\i to wit}, the redemption of our body.
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but {\i that} with all boldness, as always, {\i so} now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old.
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, it shall be said unto them, {\i Ye are} the sons of the living God.
{\b And it shall be, {\i that} in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people,\par\tab There shall they be called sons of the living God.}
And this {\i word}, {\b Yet once more,} signifieth the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
that the proof of your faith, {\i being} more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and {\i such} we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.