This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
The Lord records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah
Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.