Study Desk

Yeshua turned to them and said, "Daughters of Yerushalayim, don't cry for me; cry for yourselves and your children!

But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God,

They answered him, "Our father is Avraham." Yeshua replied, "If you are children of Avraham, then do the things Avraham did!

You are doing the things your father does." "We're not illegitimate children!" they said to him. "We have only one Father — God!"

and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.

Little children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and, as I said to the Judeans, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,' now I say it to you as well.

For the promise is for you, for your children, and for those far away — as many as Adonai our God may call!"

he has fulfilled for us the children in raising up Yeshua, as indeed it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.'

‘for in him we live and move and exist.' Indeed, as some of the poets among you have said, ‘We are actually his children.'

So, since we are children of God, we shouldn't suppose that God's essence resembles gold, silver or stone shaped by human technique and imagination.

but when the week was over, we left to continue our journey. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the town. Kneeling on the beach and praying,

an instructor for the spiritually unaware and a teacher of children, since in the Torah you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth;

The Spirit himself bears witness with our own spirits that we are children of God;

and if we are children, then we are also heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Messiah — provided we are suffering with him in order also to be glorified with him.

that it too would be set free from its bondage to decay and would enjoy the freedom accompanying the glory that God's children will have.

the people of Isra'el! They were made God's children, the Sh'khinah has been with them, the covenants are theirs, likewise the giving of the Torah, the Temple service and the promises;

In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed.

And even more to the point is the case of Rivkah; for both her children were conceived in a single act with Yitz'chak, our father;

I am not writing you this to make you feel ashamed, but, as my dear children, to confront you and get you to change.

For the unbelieving husband has been set aside for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been set aside for God by the brother — otherwise your children would be "unclean," but as it is, they are set aside for God.