Hosea 1:10

New Century Version

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 32:12

You said to me, ‘I will treat you well and will make your children as many as the sand of the seashore. There will be too many to count.’ ”

2 Samuel 7:24

You made the people of Israel your very own people forever, and, Lord, you are their God.

Isaiah 43:6

I will tell the north: Give my people to me. I will tell the south: Don’t keep my people in prison. Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from faraway places.

Isaiah 48:19

You would have had many children, as many as the grains of sand. They would never have died out nor been destroyed.”

Isaiah 63:16

You are our father. Abraham doesn’t know we are his children, and Israel doesn’t recognize us. Lord, you are our father. You are called “the one who has always saved us.”

Isaiah 64:8

But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.

Isaiah 65:1

The Lord says, “I made myself known to people who were not looking for me. I was found by those who were not asking me for help. I said, ‘Here I am. Here I am,’ to a nation that was not praying to me.

Isaiah 66:20

And they will bring all your fellow Israelites from all nations to my holy mountain in Jerusalem. Your fellow Israelites will come on horses, donkeys, and camels and in chariots and wagons. They will be like the grain offerings that the people bring in clean containers to the Temple,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi who serve me in the Temple. They will be as many as the stars in the sky that no one can count. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore that no one can measure.”

Daniel 6:26

I am making a new law for people in every part of my kingdom. All of you must fear and respect the God of Daniel. Daniel’s God is the living God; he lives forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and his rule will never end.

Hosea 1:9

The Lord said, “Name him Lo-Ammi, because you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Hosea 2:23

I will plant my people in the land, and I will show pity to the one I had called ‘not shown pity.’ I will say, ‘You are my people’ to those I had called ‘not my people.’ And they will say to me, ‘You are our God.’ ”

John 1:12

But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God.

Romans 8:19

Everything God made is waiting with excitement for God to show his children’s glory completely.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Hebrews 11:12

This man was so old he was almost dead, but from him came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. Like the sand on the seashore, they could not be counted.