Romans 8:16 - Easy To Read Version And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say we are God’s children. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God. American Standard Version (1901) The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: Common English Bible The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God’s children. Catholic Public Domain Version For the Spirit himself renders testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God. |
“\{In the future,\} the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea. You can’t measure the sand or count it. Then it will happen that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said to them, ‘You are the children of the living God.’
What great blessings there are for the people that work to bring peace!\par God will call them his sons and daughters.\par
In that life people are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from death.
Some people did accept him. They believed in him. He gave something to those people who believed. He gave them the right to become children of God.
We saw all these things happen, and we can say these things are true. The Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [100]} also shows that these things are true. God has given the Spirit to all people that obey him.”
The true children of God are those people that let God’s Spirit lead them.
Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen.
Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit {\cf2\super [67]} as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children. I mean we are waiting for our bodies to be made free.
Also, the Spirit {\cf2\super [68]} helps us. We are very weak, but the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We don’t know how to pray like we should. But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us. The Spirit begs God for us. The Spirit speaks to God with deep feelings that words cannot explain.
“And in the same place that God said,\par ‘You are not my people’—\par in that place they will be called\par sons of the living God.”\par \i (Hosea 1:10)\i0 \par
This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those people that become God’s children because of the promise God made to Abraham.
This is what we are proud of, and I can say with all my heart that it is true: In all the things we have done in the world, we have done everything with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even more true in the things we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace (kindness), not by the kind of wisdom the world has.
He put his mark on us to show that we are his. And he put his Spirit {\cf2\super [5]} in our hearts to be a guarantee—\{a proof that he will give us what he promised\}.
This is what God made us for. And he has given us the Spirit {\cf2\super [20]} to be a guarantee—a proof \{that he will give us this new life\}.
“I will be your father,\par and you will be my sons and daughters,\par says the Lord All-Powerful.”\par \i (2 Samuel 7:8,14)\i0 \par
You are God’s children. That is why God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. The Spirit {\cf2\super [49]} cries out, “Abba, {\cf2\super [50]} Father.”
It is the same with you people. You heard the true teaching—the Good News {\cf2\super [5]} about your salvation. When you heard that Good News, you believed in Christ. And in Christ, God put his special mark on you by giving you the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [6]} that he promised.
“You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
The Father (God) has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are God’s children. But the people in the world (people who don’t believe) don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him (God).
So we can see who God’s children are. Also, we can know who the children of the devil are. The people who don’t do what is right are not children of God. And the person who does not love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\} is not a child of God.
Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him like he really is.
We know that we live in God and God lives in us. We know this because God gave us his Spirit. {\cf2\super [17]}
When I come, I will talk about what Diotrephes is doing. He lies and says evil things about us. But that is not all he does! He refuses to help those brothers \{who are working to serve Christ\}. Diotrephes also stops those people who want to help the brothers. He makes those people leave the church (group of believers).
Any person that wins the victory will receive all this. And I will be his God, and he will be my son.