But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
“‘I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
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