(SEE 9:7)
He treats us like foreigners and has even cheated us out of the bride price that should have been ours.
In the future, everyone will worship and learn about you, our Lord.
The LORD will make a list of his people, and all who were born here will be included.
And don't start telling yourselves that you belong to Abraham's family. I tell you that God can turn these stones into children for Abraham.
They were not God's children by nature or because of any human desires. God himself was the one who made them his children.
Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children.
God's Spirit makes us sure that we are his children.
In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who his children are.
People of Israel, you are the LORD's children, so when you mourn for the dead, you must not cut yourselves or shave your forehead.
Even when Sarah was too old to have children, she had faith that God would do what he had promised, and she had a son.
