See what manner of love the Father has given us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
And this was yet but little in Your eyes, O Lord Jehovah. But You have spoken also of Your servant’s house for a time afar off; and is this the law of men, O Lord Jehovah?
But I said, How gladly would I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the multitudes of nations! And I said, You shall call Me, My Father; and you shall not turn away from following Me.
Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it is said to them, You are Not My People, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living God.
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are made known: Everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God; also the one not loving his brother.
Beloved ones, now we are the children of God, and it was not yet revealed what we shall be. But we know that if He is made visible to us, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.