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and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

"Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'

So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish, do you?" They answered Him, "No."

"For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself."

that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, 'YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.'

for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.'

"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.

and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants, but: "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED."

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.