You established your people Israel to be your own people for ever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
John 1:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name–[Isa. 56:5.] American Standard Version (1901) But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name: Common English Bible But those who did welcome him, those who believed in his name, he authorized to become God’s children, Catholic Public Domain Version Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. |
You established your people Israel to be your own people for ever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give each of them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.
I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.
‘The one who welcomes you welcomes me, and the one who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.
He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.
and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.
While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, , and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. So the faith that comes through Jesus has given him this perfect health in front of all of you.
The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,
For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba, Father! ’
So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him,
By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.
See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.
This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.
Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him as he is.
Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.